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rpomeroy@aunext3.cam.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) writes:
: 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 :-)
: --
: Ronald Pomeroy
: Advanced Micro Devices
: CAM Applications Group
: rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com


I agree with you !!!!!

List class and storage class are well done, but that is not enough. Where are the other
usefull classes, i.e. a B-Tree ?

Ciao !

		Olli
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