History
- Developed by Brad Cox in 1983
- Stepstone Corp. founded
-
1985 - Steve Jobs leaves apple, starts NeXT
- ObjC is the language of choice to write apps in
NeXT
- 1989 - NeXTstep 1.0a released
- 1991 - Objective-C changes make it back into gcc
-
NeXTstep 3.1 includes support for PCs
- Portable Distributed Objects ships with
NeXTstep
- Came with ObjC compiler and debugger
- 1995 - NeXT acquires all rights to ObjC language from
Stepstone
- 1997 - Apple acquires NeXT and begins work on next
MacOS
- No ObjC language standard