On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Ian Piumarta wrote:

> (IMHO, NeXT [and later Apple] crucified the language after they bought the
> rights from Stepstone.  Although the language implemented today by gcc
> bears a passing resemblence to the original, it has lost a lot of the
> [extreme] Smalltalk-like philosophy that it had.)

Well, there's always the POC (Portable Object Compiler), which still
provides the objpak and even does blocks.  But AFAIK the only person who
actually uses it is its author, David Stes, who has made himself a bit of
a pariah in the Obj-C community (read c.l.objective-c sometime to see what
I mean).