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Re: Compile times.
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Re: Compile times.


  • Subject: Re: Compile times.
  • From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:00:01 -0500
  • Mail-followup-to: Ovidiu Predescu <email@hidden>, Jonathan Wight <email@hidden>, Cocoa Dev List <email@hidden>

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:10:01PM -0700, Ovidiu Predescu wrote:
> Um, I'm not sure this would solve the problem completely.

No, but it would help a lot. The speed of compilation on Mac OS X
isn't competitive with other platforms, and it needs to be.

> It would be very nice if instead of having to compile Objective-C
> code, one could write the code in an interpreted language instead. Of
> course a good integration between such a language and ObjC should
> exist.

This would be great.

> In the old NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP days Tip Top Software had a bridge
> between Tcl, and perhaps other languages I'm not sure, and the
> Objective-C libraries.

Many such bridges still exist. I've seen current ones for
Tcl/JavaScript (Joy), Perl (CamelBones), Smalltalk (F-Script), Ruby,
and Lua. I use F-Script every day to prototype code, debug, and
explore Cocoa.

--
=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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