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Nathan Urban wrote:
> 
> In article <332944A7.2C64@lehman.com>, Paul David Fox <pfox%spamoff@lehman.com> wrote:
> 
> > gee thats useful. Objective-c is the least widely used C dialect.
> 
> So what?  If you don't want to use it, that's your loss.  Meanwhile I'll
> be taking advantage of a fully dynamic, easy-to-use C-based object
> oriented language.

Good for you. I dont doubt Obj-C is powerful or useful, what I doubt
is that it will make much market penetration until some real
'must-have' apps appear on the market.

Until then, Obj-C is as interesting as Python, Forth, etc, all
nice  'toy' languages for doing your own thing, but with
no commercial impact.
 
> > Oh and it plans to implement all those soon? Like Hurd you mean?
> > So I only have to wait X years (X > rand(15)) in order to use it?
> 
> The DR2 CD release is due out pretty soon, perhaps by the end of the
> month.  Most of the Base Library is done.  Display Ghostscript works
> but is slow.  They've got a fair bit of the GUI Library done.

Whats DR2? Which newsgroups talk about this? I'd be interested
to follow progress if the S/N ratio is good enough.
 
> If more people actually contributed to the project, instead of sitting
> around whining about how useless it is, progress would be even faster..

No comment.
 
> > In the meantime I'll just port my code to Win32.
> 
> Ouch.  Well, if you enjoy doing that, feel free.

I dont enjoy doing that, but in the real world, aiming to write
GNU or Unix programs is becoming as antiquated as driving a
steam-powered car.

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