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In article <KHERA.92Aug18111600@thneed.cs.duke.edu> khera@cs.duke.edu  
(Vivek Khera) writes:
> In article <1992Aug18.123634.5905@news.th-darmstadt.de>  
uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel) writes:
> 
>    In article <41299@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, gvw@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Greg Wilson)  
writes:
>    |> Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I am looking for a PD  
implementation of
>    |> Objective-C, and accompanying documentation (i.e. language  
description
>    |> with tutorials).
> 
>    I would suggest looking at GNU and it's gcc version 2.2.x. There's an  
Objective-C
>    compiler in it, and GNU is (kind of) PD. With the tutorials, it is  
quite different...
> 
>    Uli
> 
> yes, and it is totally useless until someone writes the runtime
> message dispatching routines.  basically, it doesn't have an Object
> class.

FYI:  "someone" wrote one has recently donated it to the FSF -- paperwork  
still pending.  It requires some clean up and porting -- about a weekend  
worth of work.  In fact, I know that someone quit well :).  There will be  
a announcement in some of the newsgroups soon.

> what's "kind of PD" supposed to mean?  PD, assuming that the original
> poster was referring to public domain, is a legal term.  either
> something is or is not public domain.  you can't be "kind of" public
> domain.  GNU stuff is freely distributable.  you just can't claim you
> wrote it.

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