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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by thomasmallen on Monday December 08, 2008 @04:47PM (#390432)
That's inconsistent with how quickly Apple had Carbon ready using C. Just a matter of effort.
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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by boucher on Monday December 08, 2008 @11:12PM (#390934)
Carbon is a port of C APIs from the classic mac mostly. On top of that, Objective-C is ultimately C, and its easier to talk between the two than Java.
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