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Yes, Jobs believed Objective-C was fine and nobody would ever need or want another language. Swift had to wait until Jobs passed away, as he'd have never author
by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, Jobs believed Objective-C was fine and nobody would ever need or want another language. Swift had to wait until Jobs passed away, as he'd have never authorised it otherwise despite lots of people telling him Objective-C was out of date.
As for the rest, yes, fair point. Usually in corporate English "values" are very vague indeed, but I suppose you can consider it to be precise.
- eesmith 7y agoI had not heard that Jobs played any important role in the choice to use Objective-C. Looking around now, I can't find corraboration of that. For example, https://www.quora.com/How-did-Steve-Jobs-invent-Objective-C https://www.quora.com/How-did-Steve-Jobs-invent-Objective-C has one person commenting "I’m not even sure if it was Jobs’s decision to include Objective C with NeXTStep, though he might have had a role in it." This is based on Jobs' seemingly lack of understanding or experience with OO programming. (Other links also offer no pointers about Jobs' involvement.) Now, to be certain, Jobs knew about the decision. He negotiated with Stallman about the licensing for the Objective-C front-end. But that's different than making the decision. Once the decision was made, I could see why he might argue that it's fine. We see, for example, companies which make a decision to only use one or a small handful of languages. He could be using his reality distortion field to keep that decision in place, rather than allowing a large diversity of languages in-house.