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>Objective-C was Apple’s response to object-oriented programming Apple's response? At its inception it had nothing to do with Apple and for a long time was the

>Objective-C was Apple’s response to object-oriented programming Apple's response? At its inception it had nothing to do with Apple and for a long time was the language of NeXT. It's only since OSX that Apple has adopted Objective-C.

rbanffy 15y ago
NeXT bought Apple for minus US$400 million and renamed itself Apple ;-) Apple's CEO came from NeXT, as did their lead software architect. OSX is NeXT (ever wonder why so many things extend NSObject?).
- codehalo 15y ago
  FYI, NeXTs' CEO was Apple's CEO first. The parents point is correct.
  - jballanc 15y ago
    Actually...no. Jobs was never CEO until after the NeXT merger.
zerostar07 15y ago
Since it's not mentioned anywhere, Obj-C was invented by Brad Cox and Tom Love and NeXT licenced it from them.
- protomyth 15y ago
  to add, if you haven't read Brad Cox's books then you really should. They are not heavy technical, but give time to some serious ideas. They are a little hard to get ahold of these days.