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

[Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com>]

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