Decide: "Objective-C" or "Objective C"?
Klee Dienes
klee@apple.com
Wed Sep 18 15:19:00 GMT 2002
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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