I know you don't think Apple invented it but ... Brad Cox and Tom Love did, their company Productivity Products International (PPI) developed Objective-C way ba

I know you don't think Apple invented it but ... Brad Cox and Tom Love did, their company Productivity Products International (PPI) developed Objective-C way back in the early 1980s. PPI became Stepstone, their biggest customer NeXT licensed ObjC in 1988, then in 1995 acquired the trademark and rights to ObjC from Stepstone. And then finally Apple bought NeXT in 1996. Interestingly, this is not the first time ObjC has been used for web stuff, WebObjects/EOF was originally an ObjC web framework but was later ported to Java.