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In article <1992Sep1.204045.42152@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> gdb0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu  
(GLENN BLANK) writes:
>>In article <BtLso6.5H4@world.std.com>, gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)  
writes:
>>>Quick Status
>>>------------
>>>There have been several dozen positive responses (zero negative) to
>>>the idea of creating a free software library containing Objective C.
>>>
>>>This is for you, the public.  If you want to be heard, climb aboard.
>>
>>Let me add another positive response.  A FSF library could stimulate
>>the popularity of Objective-C, and get more folks involved in adding
>>features and libraries that folks need and would be easier to support
>>in Objective-C than C++.  For example, garbage collection and persistence.
>>
>>Will the FSF version provide something analogous to Stepstone's
>>foundation class library or any of Next's library or will these
>>be add-ons?

For the last few months I've been using both Objective-C on the NeXT and  
SmallTalk\ObjectWorks on various platforms.  My conclusions ?  NeXT smokes  
everyone when it comes to the GUI classes, but is sorely lacking when it comes  
to data modeling classes (i.e. Set, Bag, SequenceableCollection, Collection,  
SortedCollection, OrderedCollection, Array, etc. etc. etc....the list is long)  
like we find in SmallTalk.  What I would love to see is equivalents to these on  
the Obj-C side.  FSF seems like the one to do the job :-)
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Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com