Sigh. Will Basic never die? The problem with Objective-<anything> is that the language Objective-C(++) is so integrated with the Cocoa/Cocoa Touch class librar

Sigh. Will Basic never die? The problem with Objective-<anything> is that the language Objective-C(++) is so integrated with the Cocoa/Cocoa Touch class libraries that it's hard to use other languages and have the same effectiveness. MacRuby, for example, had to extend their syntax to use the Smalltalk-like "inter-fix" method invocations normally provided by Objective-C. PyObjC is really clunky in that it basically gives up the syntax interleaving and leaves you with obj.methodWithArg_andAnotherArg_(arg1, arg2), e.g., which is pretty ugly. MacRuby seems like the only one of these projects to ever get (or maybe to get future) escape velocity, given how the Ruby implementation is completely based on/merged into the the Cocoa runtimes. Exceedingly clever, if you like Ruby. ;-)