Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:21:26 -0400 From: Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> To: Lin Jianfong <ljfong@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of definitions Message-ID: <3F172F76.7050306@explosive.mail.net> In-Reply-To: <Law15-F52CyNOMWU7Rv0001e804@hotmail.com> References: <Law15-F52CyNOMWU7Rv0001e804@hotmail.com>
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Objective-C is the other OOP variant of C, and reportedly much easier to program in. It's still in heavy use in the Mac World, being one of the two main languages for Cocoa Programming, but isn't much used in the rest of the world, apart from maybe GNUStep (Objective-C was the primary language used in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP software.) Adam Lin Jianfong wrote: > As far as I know, objective C is sort of ancestor to C++, an object > oriented C, and I doubt if anyone is still using it nowadays. As for > re-entrant, this is used when doing thread programming. > > I didn't bother with these either when upgrading a 4.7 box to 4.8. > > >> From: "Joshua Lokken" <questions@joshualokken.com> >> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >> Subject: A couple of definitions >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:35:08 -0700 >> >> Hello >> >> I am going through /etc/defaults/make.conf (4-stable) and am >> at a loss concerning two items: Objective C support, and >> libc_r (re-entrant version of libc). What are those? I built >> the world recently without them, and I'm not witnessing any >> problems, but I'm curious. Google got me some answers >> I couldn't understand... >> >> Thanks in advance. >> -- >> Best Regards, >> >> Joshua Lokken >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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