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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Objective Gnu?
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Date: 19 Sep 89 18:51:58 GMT
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Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
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/ gnu.misc.discuss / raburns%ecotopia@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) / Sep 19, 1989 /
> I had heard something to the effect that NeXT was going to make their
> Objective C compiler GNUware. Now this sounds really nice, but there
> still is a problem: the NeXT objective C compiler will still only run
> on NeXT machines [...]

RMS has already announced that he intends to merge NeXT's Objective-C work
into the GNU C/C++ compiler.  Thus, users of all systems for which gcc
back-ends have been or can be developed can benefit from NeXT's work, just
like NeXT benefited from other people's work by using gcc as the basis for
their Objective-C compiler.  This is EXACTLY the way "GNUware", as you call
it, is supposed to work.

Jacob
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