Objective-J and Cappuccino Released 56
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."
Re:And for their next trick: (Score:3, Insightful)
Years and years ago, when I was working for a mainframe timeshare outfit and was teaching myself to program, one of the technicians said to me "Why do you want to do that? All the software anybody needs has already been written."
You remind me a little of that guy.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, 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?