Improv/FlexiSheet (was Re: Funding GNUstep development)

[Tim Bissell]

On Nov 9, 2004, at 13:24, Peter Cooper wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:23:55AM +0000, Tim Bissell wrote:
>
> > As far as I recall Improv was written in a mixture of Pascal and
> > Objective-C, against a very early NS release; so its code will be in 
> > an
> > even worse state than Quantrix.  I've toyed with the idea of rewriting
>
> Actually, according to everything I've seen (and this post:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-01/msg01647.html ) Lotus Improv was the
> initial reason that Objective-C++ was created. The core of the app was
> written for OS/2 in C++, and then moved to NeXT where to assist the
> port and UI stuff a new GCC frontend was built.
I'm certainly inclined to believe Steve Naroff over my memory!

That's great news about FlexiSheet, and very brave of the author!  I 
look
forwards to a bit of digging round in it when it is all checked in...

regards,

Tim
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