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From: daven@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Objective-C compiler?
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.203502.27610@svc.portal.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 20:35:02 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.173008.22143@svc.portal.com> <1990Dec12.043710.27551@cbnewsk.att.com>
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In article <1990Dec12.043710.27551@cbnewsk.att.com> ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) writes:
>On the other hand, Cox/Stepstone are very high on the notion of "software
>ICs", and they sell several class libraries as "ICpak nnn".  So maybe
>we'll get some platform-independent class libraries instead (hope, hope).
>
>Meantime, you can go play with SmallTalk-V...

There's also work going on to bring Effiel to the Mac, first as a Effiel to C
compilier, and later as a Effiel to object module compilier.

Play with SmallTalk-V? Well, I'd rather play with Prograph 2.0, it's fun
and it's the first pictorial language for the Mac that I've actually found
useful.


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