The really nice thing about Objective-C, of course, is that you can just dip in and out of plain C as the mood takes you (e.g. where speed matters, or perhaps w

The really nice thing about Objective-C, of course, is that you can just dip in and out of plain C as the mood takes you (e.g. where speed matters, or perhaps where you're just doing numerical stuff and C is less verbose). I've come to C via Objective-C, and (like many other commenters here) have found it incredibly satisfying.