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C++ and Objective-C both began as preprocessors for C.

• NAFV_P 13y ago
  Wow, it's surprising what you can do with it.
  • tbirdz 13y ago
    Just to clarify a bit, C++ and Objective were not written in the C pre-processor, but rather implemented as their own pre-processor program, analogous to Qt's moc.
    • craigching 13y ago
      Yes like Cfront [1]. I used that back in the day, the pain of it caused me to rewrite all my C++ in C though :p Call me a coward! [1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
    • NAFV_P 13y ago
      > Just to clarify a bit, C++ and Objective were not written in the C pre-processor, but rather implemented as their own pre-processor program, analogous to Qt's moc. I bet these pre-processor programs were themselves written in C.