I have a fondness for ObjC because I was a Smalltalk programmer once upon a time (it's also probably why I like Ruby), but you could imagine a simpler object sy

I have a fondness for ObjC because I was a Smalltalk programmer once upon a time (it's also probably why I like Ruby), but you could imagine a simpler object system on par with Object Pascal. I'm actually kind of surprised that nobody tried that but maybe with ObjC and C++ fighting it out people assumed yet another object-oriented dialect would go nowhere.