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Finally Waving The White Flag to Objective-C 2.0

• tlrobinson 18y ago
  I think it's somewhat petty to dismiss Objective-C 2.0 because it was created by Apple. gcc's Objective-C support originated at NeXT. Apple is the closest thing to a benevolent dictator Objective-C has. Otherwise I agree with him. Synthesizing accessors (like attr_accessor in Ruby) is nice, as is fast iteration. Dot notation for property access isn't a huge win but some people seem to like it.
• maximilian 18y ago
  not having to write getter and setter methods seems like a really big deal. I hate doing that passionately. I'm surprised he didn't mention having a GC. Does the iPhone not have a GC? I hate doing memory management.
  • yan 18y ago
    No GC on the iPhone, but it does have all the other features.
  • cabalamat 18y ago
    > not having to write getter and setter methods seems like a really big deal I agree. I've not used Objective C but if a language forces you to write the same boilerplate code again and again, it's badly designed.
    • DLWormwood 18y ago
      > if a language forces you to write the same boilerplate code again and again, it's badly designed. It's not that ObjC was badly designed, it's that it was designed before modern OOP principles were popularized. ObjC 1.0 dates back to the mid-80's, if not sooner, if you count some of the work done with SmallTalk as a predecessor. Most of what people think is part of ObjC is really "convention" from the NeXTStep/Cocoa APIs, not something actually designed in to the language in the first place.