bobc@tikal.UUCP (Bob Campbell) (02/14/85)
I am passing this on for Carl who does not have access to postnews.
Replies can come to me and I will forward or be sent directly to
Carl Nelson at amc his path is
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From: amc!chn (Carl Nelson)
To: tikal!bobc
Subject: Smalltalk on the MAC
If you would like to pass this on to the net, I do not know what is being said
on the net about this BUT....
I recieved from Apple Computer (about 2 weeks ago) a STATUS REPORT, Jan 21,1985
on Object-oriented languages at Apple. The basics were:
1. A smalltalk will be available to developers for the MAC-XL and Lisa2.
There is no doc and no support (I called, and the person I spoke with
quoted in the $40-$50 range and avail march-april) The Apple version has
"a somewhat older class library than the one described in the Goldberg/
Robson textbook, and lacks some of its features." (read - Apple ported this
to the LISA 1 before the book was finished but meets with the XEROX spec)
2. They will also be releasing an Object Pascal. To quote:
"Object Pascal is a more recent version (of Clascal), developed with
the advice of Niklaus Wirth, the author of Pascal, and is intended as a
public-domain language."
Needless to say I have 'placed my order' for both.
3. Also Objective C from Productivity Tools will soon be available for the mac
PPT, 27 Glen Road, Sandy Hool, CT 06482