I was disappointed that when Steve [Jobs] demoed the Lotus software,
which depended on Objective-C++ … he didn't give my team credit
because we did it in our spare time … I told him in an email that I
was unhappy with that. I won't read you my email because it's not that
exciting. But his says,
"I think you are being a little thin skinned here. The reason you,
we, are doing C++ is to ensure the success of our computer and
therefore the success of the main mission of your group,
Objective-C. Going to the restroom also helps the success of your
group, but we don't recognize you for that either. I think that you,
as the group leader, need to keep the vision of Objective-C alive
within your group and NeXT and treat C++ as a necessary task to ensure
that our main vision thrives."