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Re: Decide: "Objective-C" or "Objective C"?


All documentation I've ever seen (the original NeXT documents, the current Apple documentation, and the majority of FSF documentation) refer to it as "Objective-C" (with the hyphen). One could argue that it should be otherwise, but my inclination would be to just treat it as a proper name and move on to more interesting issues.

As far as history goes, the majority of the Objective-C support was in place by the time I started working on GDB at Apple. I did a fair bit of hacking on the Objective-C code when I re-ported GDB to NeXT/Apple based on the 4.16 sources in 1999. Jim Ingham and I have been doing bugfixes on it since then, but we haven't really had to change it overly much. To be honest, it was my understanding that you had written a large portion of it; I fear that any previous authors may be lost in the depths of time. I'll do a bit of archaeology and see what I can dig up.

I'm really excited to see someone working to get the changes accepted into the mainline sources; I've taken a quick look, and they look like a great distillation of the Obj-C work. We'd be thrilled to see them accepted; they'd help our merge work considerably. I'm merging Adam's patches into our current sources now to make sure they match as much as possible; I'll put up a new GDB tarball for reference as soon as I'm done.


On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 04:07 PM, Michael Snyder wrote:

Hello Jim, Klee,

We just got a submission of apple's gdb support for objective c
from Adam Fedor at GNU.  I was hoping you could supply us with
a little history, author's names etc, to go into the changelog.

Also, first question: Should the name of the language (in comments
etc.) be "Objective-C", or "Objective C" (hyphen or no)?

Thanks,
Michael






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