Objective C?

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, Helge Hess wrote:
> There is no visible active development on the language itself nor on the
> runtime - neither by GNU people nor by Apple, as far as I know.
> Apple is going to check in their changes to gcc and use gcc afterwards
> (until now Apple used to have their own, patched gcc compiler).
> Therefore any changes committed into gcc are likely to be implicitly
> used by Apple as well.
> 
> One of the most notably differences between GNU and NeXT/Apple gcc is,
> that the latter supports ObjC++, which is quite nice for integrating C++
> and ObjC code. It would be great to have that in the GNU gcc as well.

Right now there is some intersting discussion on the darwin dev list about ObjC
and ObjC++. It seems that now the time has come where things become alive again.

> > 3) Where can I start helping out?
> 
> Don't know. Right now there seems to be no ObjC interested person out
> there who has knowledge in gcc compiler technology. Ovidiu Predescu, who
> is the maintainer of GNU ObjC, used to have some knowledge here, but
> unfortunatly he isn't doing any ObjC related stuff anymore.

Stan Shebs from Apple could be the person you want to talk to.
 
sweet dreams, Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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