When Objective-C was two guys in a garage the company I was working at was pitched by them to use it for writing software that would run on a minicomputer. This

When Objective-C was two guys in a garage the company I was working at was pitched by them to use it for writing software that would run on a minicomputer. This was way before Next. My initial impression was "Huh, so I could take the syntax definition for SmallTalk and add it to the syntax definition for C and there would be almost no collisions. Cool!" At the time I was playing with parsers in connection with automating law form filling, e.g. Westlaw form books. I agree with another poster's impression that it's more Simula-like. As an undergrad I played with M4 macros to make C more object-ish.