David Chisnall takes a look behind the scenes at Apple's upcoming revamp of the Objective-C language. As with any new language, some things are good, some are ugly, and some are both.
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Idealism? Well I have no idea what that was meant to mean, but Objective-C does not embody the simplicity of Smalltalk, the purity of Smalltalk, or even the interesting design methodology of Smalltalk.
Objective-C wishes it was as dead as C++, becuase then you could at least put it into the same sentence as Java without looking ridiculous.
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Idealism? Well I have no idea what that was meant to mean, but Objective-C does not embody the simplicity of Smalltalk, the purity of Smalltalk, or even the interesting design methodology of Smalltalk.
Objective-C wishes it was as dead as C++, becuase then you could at least put it into the same sentence as Java without looking ridiculous.