Stepstone have classes/objects for NeXTstep?

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3 total messages Started by David Williams Wed, 08 May 1991 21:10

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Author: David Williams
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 21:10

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So, does Stepstone sell any classes or IB pallettes for the NeXTstep
environment? Anyone have experience with them and pricing info.

David

Re: Stepstone have classes/objects for NeXTstep?

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Author: Mark R. Thomsen
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 20:45

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David Williams writes
  So, does Stepstone sell any classes or IB pallettes for the NeXTstep
  environment? Anyone have experience with them and pricing info.

No. Stepstone does not sell their IC Packages on NeXT. The compiler
originated with Stepstone but has sort of been taken over by NeXT.
NeXT decided to do their own classes (NeXTstep, sound kit, etc.).
Stepstone decided to not pursue the platform with specific classes
for it alone and their more general packages would be redundant and
competitive with bundled software. This info comes from conversations
with Stepstone - we were interested in the same thing.

Mark R. Thomsen

Re: Stepstone have classes/objects for NeXTstep?

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Author: David Williams
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 20:29

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In article <282B0654.364F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark
R. Thomsen) writes:
>>David Williams writes
>>  So, does Stepstone sell any classes or IB pallettes for the NeXTstep
>>  environment? Anyone have experience with them and pricing info.

>No. Stepstone does not sell their IC Packages on NeXT. The compiler
>originated with Stepstone but has sort of been taken over by NeXT.
>NeXT decided to do their own classes (NeXTstep, sound kit, etc.).
>Stepstone decided to not pursue the platform with specific classes
>for it alone and their more general packages would be redundant and
>competitive with bundled software. This info comes from conversations
>with Stepstone - we were interested in the same thing.
>
>Mark R. Thomsen

Gee thats unfortunate, considering NeXT is the only hardware platform that
has Objective C as the centerpiece of their whole product. What would be
nice is if Stepstone would take the NeXT development that much further and
layer a visual design/programming version of Objective C. I mean why stop
at laying out the GUI via direct manipulation? Why not do the same for the
underlying messages & methods as well?

David

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