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

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Klee Dienes wrote:
> 
> 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.


OK!  I'll clean up the varying usages of "Objective[ -]C".
So, six years later, I finally get to check this stuff in!
;-)

Michael