Re: Objective-C programming
Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.user |
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| Organization | Informatimago |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
"Chris Vetter" <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:00:04 -0400, Mehul wrote: > [...] >> > GNUstep's base/gui (Foundation/AppKit) are much more mature than objci, >> > so this begs the question, why do you want to avoid using them? >> I am not trying to avoid using them, just that I have a low-end machine >> and don't want to strain it too much by having to make use of the >> GUI (low end being 66MHz NuBus PowerMac 7100). > > I'm using GNUstep on a 33MHz Sparc with 32MB Ram. While it's not as 'snappy' > as, say a 1GHz PC, it's still quite usable. Of course. Remember that NeXTSTEP started on 68030@25MHz and we're only re-implementing that (well, the fourth version). >> As I said in my original >> post, I have wanted to learn Objective-C, but under the false assumption >> that one needed the GUI as well. Nicola and yourself have clarified >> that misconception. > > If memory serves right, there's at least one plain Objective-C library on > SourceForge, that implements several containers, such as arrays, lists and > such, that does not rely on GNUstep. I think it is/was called BobLib. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Nobody can fix the economy. Nobody can be trusted with their finger on the button. Nobody's perfect. VOTE FOR NOBODY.