Re: ANN: One Step to GNUstep - pre-release version 0.9

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> ObjC2 adds a few good features, but it adds a lot of fairly useless complexity 
> to a simple language and makes it much harder to learn.  In particular the 
> blocks syntax is rather ugly and doesn't fit well belonging more to a 
> functional programming paradigm than an object oriented programming paradigm, 
> so that adds considerable complexity, and the dot syntax for property access 
> encourages writing of inefficient code (which is probably the last thing you 
> want to encourage in a novice).
>    
I can't agree more.
> So your initial impression that ObjC 2 is not needed for novices is not just 
> correct, it's IMO the case that ObjC 2 is best avoided for a novice.
>    

:)
> It would make sense to provide a traditional system as default, with an 
> alternative build for people who want to play with the new toys in development.
>    
Well, providing gcc 4,6 and an optional clang should it anybody's need, 
doesn't it?

In any case, the VM release is a first version. I hope the success will 
encourage Richard to work on a new release which will follow updates in 
the SuSE packages. I'll help him of course again, although I hope he 
will discover less bugs :)

Riccardo