Objective-C is much more object-oriented than Java, mainly due to the parts of the language you've chosen to ignore because they don't remind you of Java. See

Objective-C is much more object-oriented than Java, mainly due to the parts of the language you've chosen to ignore because they don't remind you of Java. See the section on "Blub" in http://paulgraham.com/avg.html http://paulgraham.com/avg.html Conditional compilation is a terrible, terrible thing but for the opposite reason you think; it's just too useful for too many things and almost inevitably leads to shipping code that's never/barely been tested. Java left it out to protect WORA, but the only reason you can really (sort of) live without it in performance-critical apps is due to the JIT doing the same sort of things for you invisibly.