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Not bad but I would have liked to have seen a formal grammar for the syntax structure, especially since it is so different from Java, C# and C++ which most deve
by hexagonc 15y ago
Not bad but I would have liked to have seen a formal grammar for the syntax structure, especially since it is so different from Java, C# and C++ which most developers are familiar with. It was especially difficult to understand the syntax around keyword-based input arguments for methods. I only understood it on my second reading and only then because I was already familiar with the concept from LISP. There were also no examples or even mention of flow control statements. That seems like a glaring omission.
Perhaps most importantly, the tutorial should have mentioned that objective-c is a superset of c. That alone would have answered most of the questions around flow control statements since those, presumably, use the same syntax as c. As it stands, there's barely enough in this tutorial to do basic scripting with objective-c.