Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!cassel
From: cassel@sce.carleton.ca (Ron Casselman)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OO Case tools
Message-ID: <670@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 5 Oct 89 16:47:40 GMT
References: <13307@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Reply-To: cassel@sce.UUCP (Ron Casselman)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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	At Carleton University we are using Objective C on several
software development projects and are hurting because of the lack
of tool support. We have modified two existing tools; namely dbx and
cpr, to provide a symbolic debugger and automatic documentation
generation capability for Objective C. Modifing dbx was very easy.
We just added some user defined functions to print instance variables,
find the C implementations of methods etc. Objective-C proves methods
and functions specifically for debugging. 
As for documentation generation,
cpr was modified to find class and method definitions (with associated
comments) and spit out a latex document. We can also search class
heirarchies and create class heirarchy diagrams.

Some tools we like to see are a browser and a "lint"er. We have 
used lint on the intermediate "C" code but it takes a lot of
sifting to find the important info. If anyone has info. on commerical
or public domain tools for the new "crop" of hybrid 00 languages
please post.

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