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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Objective C/Runtime system
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Date: 17 Sep 90 23:42:37 GMT
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In-Reply-To: noren@dinl.uucp's message of 17 Sep 90 19:01:34 GMT


   Date: 17 Sep 90 19:01:34 GMT
   From: noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren)

   comp.lang.objective-c is an unmoderated group with the charter:

     The news group comp.lang.objective-c is chartered
     to discuss questions and issues surrounding the
     Objective-C language,  the compiler, class libraries 
     implemented in and/or accessible from Objective-C,
     tools for the Objective-C environment, interfaces to 
     other software systems, and applications written in 
     Objective-C or usable by Objective-C.

I have a couple of points/questions:

1> I have heard that Stepstone owns a trademark on the name Objective
   C.  Is this true?  Must any other compiler than Stepstone's use a
   different name for the language?

2> I am looking for help in writing a runtime library for GNU
   Objective C (or whatever it will be called if my question above is
   true).  Ideally we would integrate with GNU C++ (bletch) so that
   Objective C fans could build upon others' work in a more tasteful
   fashion.

   Having looked at the problem I don't think it's too difficult, but
   it will be somewhat time consuming, which is why help would be very
   much appreciated.