Stepstone

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Stepstone (originally Productivity Products International) was a software company founded in 1983 by Brad Cox and Tom Love, best known for releasing the original version of the Objective-C programming language.

In April 1995, NeXT acquired the Objective-C trademark and rights from Stepstone. At the same time, Stepstone licensed back from NeXT the right to continue selling their Objective-C based products. [1]

Stepstone appears to have gone out of business in 2002. [2]

In Europe, StepStone is today the name of a Europe-wide recruitment company [3]

Objective-C is now the founding progamming base for Apple Computer, Inc. and is recommended as the default language in their Xcode programming environment.

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