Re: [OT] Objective-C history
Re: [OT] Objective-C history
- Subject: Re: [OT] Objective-C history
- From: Prachi Gauriar <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500
On Dec 10, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Creed Erickson wrote:
On Dec 10, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Killobit wrote:
where does the .m extension for objective-c source files come from?
my guess would be "implementation" (second letter)
but im not sure.
'm'ethods
Okay, this has happened a number of times today. In my earlier post in
this thread, I referred people to the thread last year that discussed
the same thing, but it seems like I would have done better to actually
give the answer in the body of the message.
According to Steve Naroff (worked on the original Stepstone Objective-C
compiler and wrote the original front-end support for Objective-C for
GCC), the 'm' stands for messages. Brad Cox (inventor of Objective-C)
seems to recall that it was messages on some level, though he doesn't
remember for sure. Given the credentials of these two men, it seems
very likely that the 'm' stands for 'messages', not 'methods' or
'modules'.
-Prachi
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