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C.

• addaon 8mo ago
  C's a great language in 1985, and a great starting point. But development of UI software is one of those areas where object oriented software really shines. What if we could get all the advantages of C as a procedural language, but graft on top an extremely lightweight object system with a spec of < 20 pages to take advantage of these new 1980s-era developments in software engineering, while keeping 100% of the maturity and performance of the C ecosystem? We could call it Objective-C.
• mpweiher 8mo ago
  And Objective-C is C. A strict superset, in fact. If [aView display]; really, really, really isn't to your liking, you can write objc_msgSend( aView, @selector(display)); or even: objc_msgSend( aView, sel_registerName("display")); That's pretty much all there is to it. But I have to admit I like the syntax better: [aView display];
  • addaon 8mo ago
    (Hi mpw)
    • mpweiher 8mo ago
      (Hi Adam, how's the flying?)