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From: selden@hpspkla.HP.COM (Jon L. Selden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: objective c
Message-ID: <3930001@hpspkla.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 89 15:25:21 GMT
References: <4800061@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
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>Yes, there are lots of major players in the market place using Objective 'C'
>including the following. 
>		1. Southwestern Bell Corporation
>		2. IBM ( signed world wide liscense)
>		3. NeXT computing (Steve Jobs new box)
>		4. Erickson Switch (doing real time in Obj 'C')
>		5. U. S. West Advanced Technology.
>	This list is by no means all inclusive, but does give an example
>of some of the vendors I am familiar with. BTW I am interested in OBJ 'C'
>news group.
>
>James M Doherty  - SWBT - Advanced Technology Planning
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Just for the record...

Add Hewlett-Packard to the list.  Despite a few rather loud contrary voices,
Objective-C is being used very successfully in some areas of the company.
One particular group had a bad experience with it when they misapplied it
and then blamed the language.  Others have learned from these mistakes.  It
seemed unfair not to at least mention the HP success stories along with the
horror stories found in this notestring.