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For Objective-C (or any objective language): geometry. Qualities of objects, and their role in relation to other objects are really all there is. Also, memory,
by tcdent 13y ago
For Objective-C (or any objective language): geometry. Qualities of objects, and their role in relation to other objects are really all there is.
Also, memory, which is all we are manipulating at the end of the day, is linear; points on a line.
- tlarkworthy 13y agothe time series for RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY is far from anything resembling linearity. Nor is a snapshot of it at any point in time usually. RAM is equivalent of "tape" in a Turing machine. If its anything resembling linear for any amount of time, the machine would not be Turing complete ... and therefore a not very interesting programming language/model.
- tcdent 13y agoAh, apparently I do not fully understand the hardware implementation. Consistent, in software at least, is the concept of memory being linear; references using a start and end point, and points between.