Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Nov 2006 22:59 UTC
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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Member since:2006-01-01
The syntax of Objective-C has about one thing that's similar to the syntax of Smalltalk. It is a single-inheritance message-based language and has that in common with Smalltalk, but it's really more of C with a simple object system bolted onto the side that looks completely alien from both the C and Smalltalk perspective. All of the mediocrity of programming with C with less than half of what's interesting about any Smalltalk environment. Now with garbage collection and foreach!
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2006-01-03
Really? Those "poor souls" seem to like using Obj-C. I know my friend who does OSX programming (and NeXT before that) swears by it.
You might not like it but a lot of other people do.
From wikipedia:
Objective-C is a very "thin" layer on top of C. Objective-C is a strict superset of C. That is, it is possible to compile any C program with an Objective-C compiler. Objective-C derives its syntax from both C and Smalltalk. Most of the syntax (including preprocessing, expressions, function declarations and function calls) is inherited from C, while the syntax for object-oriented features was created to enable Smalltalk-style message passing.