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From: dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Re: Stepstone have classes/objects for NeXTstep?
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Date: 13 May 91 20:29:27 GMT
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In article <282B0654.364F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark
R. Thomsen) writes:
>>David Williams writes
>>  So, does Stepstone sell any classes or IB pallettes for the NeXTstep
>>  environment? Anyone have experience with them and pricing info.

>No. Stepstone does not sell their IC Packages on NeXT. The compiler
>originated with Stepstone but has sort of been taken over by NeXT.
>NeXT decided to do their own classes (NeXTstep, sound kit, etc.).
>Stepstone decided to not pursue the platform with specific classes
>for it alone and their more general packages would be redundant and
>competitive with bundled software. This info comes from conversations
>with Stepstone - we were interested in the same thing.
>
>Mark R. Thomsen

Gee thats unfortunate, considering NeXT is the only hardware platform that
has Objective C as the centerpiece of their whole product. What would be
nice is if Stepstone would take the NeXT development that much further and
layer a visual design/programming version of Objective C. I mean why stop
at laying out the GUI via direct manipulation? Why not do the same for the
underlying messages & methods as well?

David