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Article #324Re: Health of Stepstone and ObjC
From: Mark R. Thomsen
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 22:07
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 22:07
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Izumi Ohzawa writes How critical is Stepstone's continued operation to NeXT and NeXT users? What part of NeXT software is directly dependent on Stepstone? Stepstone is not a critical component to NeXT in the sense a) NeXT only uses OC and not IC-Pak and b) NeXT liscences OC but did the critical parts of the compiler themselves (apparent from the trademarking). NeXT selected OC at the time because dynamic binding was there ... C++ was not there yet. However it looks like C++ could become the 'native language' easily for NeXT. Afterall, they are selling NeXT computers and not Objective-C computers. Personally I would hate to see OC and Stepstone go under. My people really prefer OC to C++, and so do I. Stepstone was good to work with when we used their products on Sun, and the product worked well. Mark R. Thomsen
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!gumby.dsd.trw.com!deneva!news From: thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark R. Thomsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c Subject: Re: Health of Stepstone and ObjC Message-ID: <283C3D20.6BF7@deneva.sdd.trw.com> Date: 23 May 91 22:07:28 GMT References: <1991May23.075820.983@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@deneva.sdd.trw.com Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 23