Re: [OT] What happened to Stepstone?
Re: [OT] What happened to Stepstone?
- Subject: Re: [OT] What happened to Stepstone?
- From: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:29:54 -0600
On Dec 2, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
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.
In the Texas Tech University Library there was a book from the same
era that always intrigued me:
Object-Oriented Assembly Language by Len Dorfman (if the on-line
catalog is listing the same book I remember)
<
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0830676201/qid=1133558747/sr=1-17/
ref=sr_1_17/002-4425917-3923264?s=books&v=glance&n=283155>
I remember picking it up and thumbing through it... but I don't
remember reading it. Just the title sounds like what you describe
taken to an extreme.
Scott
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