From: Aidan Mark Humphreys <ahumphr@...>
Date: 2002-10-01T18:59:28+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness

Chris Gehlker wrote:

> 
>> new aplle's unix-derived OS. so, at this time OC is dead,
>> except for using it in nextstep/darwin programs
> 
> I'm sure these guys, http://www.gnustep.org/, these guys,
> http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/, and these folks over
> here, http://www.linuxstep.org/ will be upset to learn that.

I'm sure Brad Cox, a frequent poster here, will also be somewhat 
disappointed ;-).

I read Brad's 0-C book "OOP-An Evolutionary Approach" back in 
1985. It was inspirational. Although I have never worked 
seriously with NextStep, One of the delights of Ruby was 
rediscovering some of Brad's ideas implemented in a new 
language.

BTW. There was extensive debate on the PragProg LOTY list about 
which language to study next year. Objective-C had many 
advocates.

Aidan