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== History ==
GNUstep began when [[Paul Kunz]] and others at [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]] wanted to port [[HippoDraw]] from [[NeXTSTEP]] to another platform. Instead of rewriting HippoDraw from scratch and reusing only the application design, they [[Rewrite (programming)|decided to rewrite]] the NeXTSTEP [[object-oriented programming|object]] layer on which the application depended. This was the first version of ''libobjcX''. It enabled them to port HippoDraw to Unix systems running the [[X Window System]] without changing a single line of their application source. After the OpenStep specification was released to the public in 1994, they decided to write a new ''objcX'' which would adhere to the new APIs. The software would become known as "GNUstep".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gnustep.made-it.com/Guides/History.html|title=GNUstep History|website=gnustep.made-it.com|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>