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- Item 5338883 19-Jan-90 15:27
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- From: PASCOE1 Pascoe, Geoff
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: RE: RE: NeXT IB vs. MacApp
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- In Response to Ed Jung's link regarding NeXT IB vs. MacApp,
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- I've been informed by a friend of mine at NeXT that Ed's memo was substantially
- accurate regarding the capabilities of the NeXT IB. However, Ed states
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- "In an Oct 19 message, Geoff Pascoe wrote:
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- Classes have the types of instance variables but not their names, and
- selectors have their names available but not their types. Clearly a very
- significant oversight.
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- This statement is true for the Objective C 4.0 system distributed by Stepstone.
- It is NOT true for the Objective C compiler on the NeXT machine. Geoff may
- have been confused because NexT's 0.9 documentation included the Stepstone
- docs."
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- I would never let myself be confused by reading documentation :) I KNOW this
- because I used to work for Stepstone and have had discussions with a friend at
- NeXT (who also worked at Stepstone). In fact, 0.9 SOFTWARE, not just
- documentation had these characteristics. Ed is correct, however, that version
- 1.0 has corrected these deficiencies.
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- In any case, I feel my link accurately reflects the differences between
- Smalltalk, Objective-C, Object Pascal, and C++.
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- Geoff
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