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Re: Objective-C standard
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Objective-C standard |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Jun 2006 05:58:57 +0200 |
Christopher Armstrong writes:
> I've been reading the discussion about Objective-C not being a standard,
> and couldn't help thinking that perhaps there's another way of looking
> at this. The advantages of not having a standard in this regard is that
> we can "innovate" with regards to the language i.e. we are not bound by
> standards bodies to ensure that our compiler complies. Considering that
> gcc is the de-facto standard, I would have thought that the GNU project
> would only be limited to the potential of it's developers in adding new
> features, modifying the runtime (and it's design), etc. Not unlike
> GNUstep already adds useful features to gnustep-base and gnustep-gui,
> where they may not be found elsewhere. Although this sounds a bit much,
> I don't think we should shy away from extending and modifying the
> language where the community reaches a consensus that such changes are
> useful.
There are a lot of programming languages in use today and very popular
that are not standard either: perl, php, ruby, python, etc.
Some other language have international standards, such as Common Lisp,
and are not as popular, even if still successful.
So this really doesn't matter.
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