Re: OpenStep anniversary

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-10-18 16:35:59 +0100 Dennis Leeuw <address@hidden> wrote:

> Nicolas Roard wrote:
> > Regarding the article, I think we need:
> > - a part about OpenStep, history, etc.

My edit of Dennis's work is below.

> > - GNUstep's history (with emphasis on the recent progresses, 
> > obviously..)

What are the most significant recent progresses? Not currently hacking 
on it, I have trouble telling, as not much is on info-gnustep 
recently.

> > - Presentation of GNUstep possibilities

This looks a large topic.


10 - the magic number
=====================

Today, the OpenStep API celebrates its 10th anniversary. It started 
out as a joint adventure of NeXT and SUN to define an application 
development standard that would run on all machines, making "write 
once compile everywhere" a reality and OpenStep is still a vivid and 
active community of GNUstep, old NeXT and Apple lovers.

The magic 10 appears in GNUstep's current 1.10.x and Apple's MacOS X 
release numbers. Currently, people can develop their programs on Mac 
OS, Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, and (with a couple of hurdles) even on 
Windows. This solid and well-defined standard is reaching out to the 
world of software development, slowly but surely.

Program your applications in a couple of hours instead of days, weeks 
or never. Use the advanced API of a development framework that didn't 
need much modification for 10 years, because it rocks, is stable and 
just works.

You want to know more? Visit the links below:

GNUstep:
http://www.gnustep.org/
http://www.roard.com/gnustep/GNUstep-brochure.pdf
http://www.roard.com/gnustep/Booklet.pdf
http://www.roard.com/docs/lmf1.article/

OpenStep:
http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/objc/

Apple:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/

Dennis, MJR

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