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From: carter@sloth.gatech.edu (Carter Bullard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: source code availability
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Date: 29 Jan 89 22:32:49 GMT
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Reply-To: carter@sloth.gatech.edu (Carter Bullard)
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The problem that I have with the notion of not having source code
is; how am I going to make a significant contribution to the, lets say,
Objective C class definitions, if I don't have access to the existing
class methods?   

I learned how to program in C by looking at Unix source code. Am I
going to learn how to program in Objective C using StepStone's five
minute tutorial?  If I had NeXT's source code for the existing classes, 
however, I could probably be producing usable code in a short period 
of time.

It is going to be hard to make this box a sound development system
without access to the internals.  Any other situation reduces us all 
to the lowest of all common denominators, just users.

Carter Bullard
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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