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December 16, 2006

POC 3.2.8 Released

Posted: 2006-12-16 23:17:00
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Portable Object Compiler 3.2.8 has been released. POC includes an Objective-C compiler that generates C code.

November 06, 2006

"Behind the Scenes of Objective-C 2.0" Article Available

Posted: 2006-11-06 08:25:00
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David Chisnall has written an article entitled "Behind the Scenes of Objective-C 2.0".

It introduces the history of Objective-C, as well as its present state. There is discussion of the new features of Objective-C 2.0, including garbage collection, method attributes, properties, the for each loop, and more. He finishes up by talking about features that he was hoping for, but that were not included. Such features include blocks, an equivalent to Smalltalk's become: method, and an improved preprocessor.

September 09, 2005

Higher Order Messaging Paper Now Available

Posted: 2005-09-09 16:40:00
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Marcel Weiher has announced that a draft of a paper (pdf) on Higher Order Messaging is now available. Higher Order Messaging is described as a "technique for increasing the expressiveness of dynamic object oriented languages by allowing messages to take (curried) messages as arguments."