From: Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T02:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness


On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 02:59 AM, Aidan Mark Humphreys wrote:

> 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 ;-).
>
He'll probably be heartbroken ;-)

> 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.
>
Well, for someone who is familiar with both C and Ruby, ObjC is more 
like 'Language of the Day.'  I just hope folks don't dismiss it because 
it is easy to learn.
-- 
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