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John W. Kennedy wrote:
> John Colagioia wrote:
>> If Carbon and Cocoa are what I think they are, almost the entire
>> system may very well be open source, or at least an instance of a
>> collection of existing open source projects.
> No.  Cocoa is the non-Unix API for MacOS X.  I don't know how much of
> Cocoa's file and process handling is Unixish, but the GUI part is
> completely different from X, oriented toward programming in Objective-C,
> and using the latest thought in API design.

Objective-C was actually what I was getting at, with respect to
Cocoa.  I had heard, at one point, that they were at least
considering using the existing (free, open, whatever) runtimes.

Sounds like that is definitely no longer the case.

> But Cocoa is also completely different

Ah.  Thanks for the rundown.

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