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July 14, 2008

Pragmatic Smalltalk 0.5 Released

2008-07-14 05:58:46
Languages :: Objective-C, Languages :: Smalltalk

Pragmatic Smalltalk 0.5 has been released. It is a native Smalltalk compiler offering integration with Objective-C.

Dec. 16, 2006

POC 3.2.8 Released

2006-12-16 23:17:00
Languages :: Objective-C

Portable Object Compiler 3.2.8 has been released. POC includes an Objective-C compiler that generates C code.

Nov. 06, 2006

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

2006-11-06 08:25:00
Languages :: Objective-C

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.

Sep. 09, 2005

Higher Order Messaging Paper Now Available

2005-09-09 16:40:00
Languages :: Objective-C

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.

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