>Underlying OS was Mach. Language of choice - C
That doesn’t quite seem accurate. NeXT applications were written in
Objective-C, which was a simple dynamically bound OOP extension. I was
never a NeXT developer, but my understanding was the whole user mode
application universe (NeXTStep) was done in Objective-C, and the system
API’s were all defined in terms of Objective-C objects and messages.
Using Objective-C is a TOTALLY different environment that straight C. This
was an attempt to have some of the dynamic flexibility of Smalltalk and the
execution speed of C.
Objective-C I believe is still part of the GNU compiler.
- Jan
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