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If you like C and Lisp (no Smalltalk experience?) did you ever have occasion to try Objective-C?

• vkazanov 2y ago
  No Objective-C for me. I was always living in the Linux/x86 world as long as I remember. Isn't it like C with dynamic dispatch bolted on..? As strange as it may sound, I do know quite a lot about Smalltalk implementation details without ever using the language. Self (a Smalltalk dialect) papers were big in the jit compiler writer community in late 90s and early 2000s. A couple of classic general programming books used Smalltalk in examples.
  • WillAdams 2y ago
    Yes. You can access Objective-C in Linux via GnuStep.
    • vkazanov 2y ago
      It would have been interesting sometime around the first C++ exposure but probably a bit too late by now :-)