Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bbn!bbn.com!bpalmer From: bpalmer@bbn.com (Brian Palmer) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Objective Gnu? Keywords: gnu,gcc,next Message-ID: <45768@bbn.COM> Date: 19 Sep 89 15:36:16 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Lines: 16 In "The NeXT Book" by Bruce Webster, he says: (page 134) Objective C is based on the Gnu C compiler developed by Richard Stallman. Release 0.9 has merged the Objective C syntax with the the Gnu C compiler to speed up compilation and to produce faster, more efficient code. Are they using FSF software in their product? Or is Webster just badly explaining the situation ... and Objective C is just preprocessing and passing C to gcc. Otherwise Gang, I see a Copyleft violation right? Brian