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7th June 2008 - Link Blog

280slides and Objective-J. 280 slides uses an Objective-C clone written in 13KB of JavaScript. I have to admit I’m completely baffled as to why you would want to use Objective C instead of JavaScript, but evidently it worked fantastically well for them.

Posted 7th June 2008 at 4:09 pm

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