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Thanks for the link! This is why I love HN... I learn something within 10 minutes of querying. (By the way, I'll accept that if Java was inspired by Obj-C, the

Thanks for the link! This is why I love HN... I learn something within 10 minutes of querying. (By the way, I'll accept that if Java was inspired by Obj-C, then C# was, by proxy) As I said, I love Obj-C, I just heard nothing of it's inspirational nature in the Java (or C#) release days, despite learning about it somewhere between those two dates. I type corrected!

chc 14y ago
Well, nobody's going to tout "Our language was inspired by this weird, unpopular little thing that lost hard to C++" in their marketing materials, which was pretty much the perception of Objective-C among the few who knew about it at the time. Remember, in those days, C++ was king — it was basically "the programming language for grown-ups" in a lot of people's minds — so Sun wanted to encourage that association above all others, even if it wasn't really where the designers' heart lay.