Stats show 72% Objective-C and 10% C. What benefits does Objective-C over C that makes this a language of choice for this project? And what parts are implemented in C? Can someone share some info about this?
https://goodreads.com/book/show/1945013.Object_Oriented_Prog...
and also see the magazine articles:
- “No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.”. Fredrick P. Brooks, Jr.
and the rebuttal:
- "There IS a Silver Bullet" by Brad Cox from Byte magazine – the October 1990 issue: https://theopensourcery.com/there-is-a-silver-bullet/
Basically it was Smalltalk bolted onto C and with the elegant and robust NeXT frameworks meant that much of an application's functionality was provided by the underlying system which was revolutionary at the time.
From a different discussion:
>A quick overview of Interface Builder is Steve Job's demo for NeXT --- perhaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0CbKYUFTY > >where they discuss how dragging/drawing allows one to make 80% of the app, and the balance of 20% is one's own code.
Edit: Seems somebody else found it, see other comments.
- Mach microkernel --- Avie Tevanian may well be the most heavily recruited computer science student in history with offers from AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, and NeXT
- Interface Builder --- Jean-Marie Hullot originally did a graphical layout system for developing on the Mac
- Display PostScript --- to a great degree, NeXT was responsible for this
- Objective-C --- as noted elsethread this was worked up by Brad Cox at Stepstone
and, of course they licensed Unix from AT&T (and other bits from other sources such as a Pantone color library, or Webster's dictionary for Webster.app, and Mathematica from Wolfram was included early on).
Wish my Cube hadn't stopped booting up...
Confirm, got to see a live demo at Comdex ATL back in 1992? Mind blown.