Re: [OT] What happened to Stepstone?
Re: [OT] What happened to Stepstone?
- Subject: Re: [OT] What happened to Stepstone?
- From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:18:14 -0500
Stepstone was founded by Brad Cox. Not sure what he's up to these
days. I am currently reading the book "Object-Oriented
Programming" (second edition) by him and Andrew Novobilski. It's cool
to read a relatively early (1991) assessment of the state of object-
oriented programming, with a major slant towards describing things in
Objective-C terms. It's also interesting to be reminded of how many
of the things we take for granted in our daily use of Objective-C are
just conventions of the Foundation and Cocoa frameworks.
The book's angle is sort of how you can "objectify" whatever language
you want to, similarly to how they objectified C. I managed to find a
copy of the book on Half.com, but I'm not sure how easy it is to get
ahold of, in general.
Daniel
On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Alexander Lamb wrote:
I seem to remember that NeXT bought the rights to Objective-C.
And one of the top compiler guys from Stepstone (forgot his name)
went to work for NeXT, then left, then came back.
He might still be with the compiler group at Apple. (forgot his name).
On Friday, December 02, 2005, at 03:17PM, Felix Schwarz
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
I've stumbled over the website www.objc.info today and read a bit
about the history of Objective-C there. The site talks of a
Objective-
C compiler by Stepstone. Unter their old web address www.stepstn.com
I found only ads, but nothing related to the company. What did happen
to them? Did they go out of business, were they acquired, ..? Just
curious ..
Felix
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