Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!olson From: olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Bob Olson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c Subject: Re: What/where is Objective C Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 16:37:24 GMT References: Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: asherman@dino.ulowell.edu's message of 28 Sep 90 09:10:47 GMT In article asherman@dino.ulowell.edu (Aaron Sherman) writes: > > 3. What does O-C have to do with the NeXT (correct upper-lowers?)? Is this > something that I can only get easily for the NeXT? What other platforms > can I expect to get it for? Objective-C is the language in which the Application Kit and other NextStep libraries are implemented. It therefore comes bundled with the machine. The version that NeXT is using is based on the GNU C compiler. When release 2.0 of the GNU C compiler comes out, it will actually be a C/C++/Objective-C compiler, as NeXT has released their Obj-C changes back to GNU. However, I hear that the NeXT runtime libraries for Obj-C are not a part of that (as makes sense, since they are not derived from GNU sources). There is a plan afoot to write a GNU Obj-C runtime library -- contact gumby@cygnus.com if you're interested in helping out with it. --bob