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Objective-J and Cappuccino Released

Wizard Drongo writes "280 North, who earlier this year released 280 Slides, a revolutionary new type of web-app written in Objective-J using the Cappuccino framework (both of which they also wrote), have today made good on their promise to open-source the language and framework. From their about page: 'Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with. Cappuccino was implemented using a new programming language called Objective-J, which is modeled after Objective-C and built entirely on top of JavaScript. Programs written in Objective-J are interpreted in the client, so no compilation or plugins are required. Objective-J is released alongside Cappuccino in this project and under the LGPL.' You can download the framework, tools, documentation and more on their website."

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  1. Re:Hmmm.... by MBCook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would you have preferred Visual Objective-J++.Net 3.0b MSDN Edition?

    The name is not bad. The main thing it does to me is imply Objective-C heritage which is what it is supposed to do. The J could be confused with Java though. Objective-JS would have cleared that up, but then it doesn't sound nearly as close to Objective-C.

    This is all the fault of that decision long ago to name JavaScript after Java for marketing reasons.

    I'd suggest Objective-ECMA, but that sounds like the test for a skin rash.

    PS: What's with the "nod" tags today?

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