The runtime is modeled after the NeXT Objective C runtime. That is,
most functions have semantics as it is known from the NeXT. The
names, however, have changed. All runtime API functions have names
-of lowercase letters and and underscores as opposed to the
+of lowercase letters and underscores as opposed to the
`traditional' mixed case names.
The runtime api functions are not documented as of now.
Someone offered to write it, and did it, but we were not allowed to