Re: OpenStep anniversary

[Dennis Leeuw]

Out of the comments from MJ Ray, Robert Slover and Nicolas Roard, I 
composed the following:

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10 the magic number
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Today, the OpenStep API celebrates its 10th anniversary. What 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, is still unfolding within the vivid and 
active community of GNUstep, old NeXT and Apple lovers.

The magic 10 appears in GNUstep's current 1.10.x release and in Apple's 
MacOS X "Cocoa" release. Programmers worldwide 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 hasn't 
needed significant 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/

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Maybe we should start posting it to sites world wide. I will see if I 
can get it posted on LWN.

Dennis

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