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From: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Re: Implementation of Objective C
Message-ID: <7168@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 91 14:13:02 GMT
References: <1991May27.073640.13936@dit.upm.es> <7104@stpstn.UUCP> <1991May30.142255.27573@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
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In article <1991May30.142255.27573@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> shirley@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) writes:
...
|>Doesn't Objective-C have some kind of runtime environment (like
|>LISP and smalltalk) ?  Doesn't this involve a little more than
|>just "writing a compiler" like you would for C (or FORTRAN,
|>Pascal, ...)?
...

Yes, Objective-C has a runtime environment.  (But C and Fortran do,
too.)  The Objective-C runtime includes the messager, object creation
and freeing code, and lots of other "twisty little passages, all different."

Ken