Objective-C is always going to win the contest for Smalltalk-esque verbosity, but I would hardly consider the code you wrote to be cumbersome. In the modern Obj

Objective-C is always going to win the contest for Smalltalk-esque verbosity, but I would hardly consider the code you wrote to be cumbersome. In the modern Objective-C runtime using garbage collection, you can write this: // Order.h #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> @interface Order : NSObject @property (copy) NSString *id; @property (retain) Customer *customer; @property (copy) NSDate *timestamp; @property (copy) NSString *productId; @end // Order.m #import "Order.h" @implementation Article @synthesize id; @synthesize customer; @synthesize timestamp; @synthesize productId; @end Apple engineers have confirmed that they're working on making @synthesize the default behavior for properties, so eventually you won't have to write that either. A real-world app would be using Core Data for its model objects, negating the need to write this class at all while adding automatic faulting, data integrity, and undo/redo: Order *order = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"Order" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];