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- From: rpomeroy@aunext3.cam.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
- Subject: Re: Objective C library, Free Software Foundation
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.150044.23638@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 15:00:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.204045.42152@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
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- In article <1992Sep1.204045.42152@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> gdb0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
- (GLENN BLANK) writes:
- >>In article <BtLso6.5H4@world.std.com>, gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
- writes:
- >>>Quick Status
- >>>------------
- >>>There have been several dozen positive responses (zero negative) to
- >>>the idea of creating a free software library containing Objective C.
- >>>
- >>>This is for you, the public. If you want to be heard, climb aboard.
- >>
- >>Let me add another positive response. A FSF library could stimulate
- >>the popularity of Objective-C, and get more folks involved in adding
- >>features and libraries that folks need and would be easier to support
- >>in Objective-C than C++. For example, garbage collection and persistence.
- >>
- >>Will the FSF version provide something analogous to Stepstone's
- >>foundation class library or any of Next's library or will these
- >>be add-ons?
-
- For the last few months I've been using both Objective-C on the NeXT and
- SmallTalk\ObjectWorks on various platforms. My conclusions ? NeXT smokes
- everyone when it comes to the GUI classes, but is sorely lacking when it comes
- to data modeling classes (i.e. Set, Bag, SequenceableCollection, Collection,
- SortedCollection, OrderedCollection, Array, etc. etc. etc....the list is long)
- like we find in SmallTalk. What I would love to see is equivalents to these on
- the Obj-C side. FSF seems like the one to do the job :-)
- --
- Ronald Pomeroy
- Advanced Micro Devices
- CAM Applications Group
- rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com
-