This story, like almost every one about NeXT these last few years, strikes me as deepy revisionest with regard to objective-C. I have no idea who or what power is astroturfing so hard, but someone is trying to re-write history to make objective-C more important or impactful than it was at the time. When NeXT hit the collective consciousness, they were of remark because of their hardware choices; nobody gave half a thought to their software implementation, despite the somewhat novel visual aesthetic. Yes, we were inspired and yes we lusted after their machines, but I am sorry, everyone was still writing C at the time.
I don’t remember it quite that way — “objects” were the mega-buzzword of the day, even though few people knew what objects and object-orientation meant. I remember it being heavily talked about that so much of NeXTSTEP was written in an object-oriented language, and NeXT/Jobs often used Interface Builder (which heavily relied/relies on the Objective-C runtime) to show off how much more quickly you could allegedly write software on the system.
This story, like almost every one about NeXT these last few years, strikes me as deepy revisionest with regard to objective-C. I have no idea who or what power is astroturfing so hard, but someone is trying to re-write history to make objective-C more important or impactful than it was at the time. When NeXT hit the collective consciousness, they were of remark because of their hardware choices; nobody gave half a thought to their software implementation, despite the somewhat novel visual aesthetic. Yes, we were inspired and yes we lusted after their machines, but I am sorry, everyone was still writing C at the time.
I don’t remember it quite that way — “objects” were the mega-buzzword of the day, even though few people knew what objects and object-orientation meant. I remember it being heavily talked about that so much of NeXTSTEP was written in an object-oriented language, and NeXT/Jobs often used Interface Builder (which heavily relied/relies on the Objective-C runtime) to show off how much more quickly you could allegedly write software on the system.