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Many years ago, there was a language called TOM. TOM was a descendant of Objective C, but with garbage collection, blocks, some other stuff ... and a Common Lis
by BruceM 14y ago
Many years ago, there was a language called TOM. TOM was a descendant of Objective C, but with garbage collection, blocks, some other stuff ... and a Common Lisp style condition system (before Objective C had exceptions or blocks or GC or ...).
http://gerbil.org/tom/ http://gerbil.org/tom/
Sadly dead once the author got his PhD though.
- gte910h 14y ago> garbage collection, blocks Blocks exist in Objective C. GC did, but was replaced for Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). ARC is good enough in mobile and probably better for Desktop.
- BruceM 14y agoLet me quote a couple of relevant parts of my comment: > Many years ago > (before Objective C had exceptions or blocks or GC or ...) TOM had the things that I mentioned back in 1998, 1999, maybe earlier. Objective C has come a long way since then.