Comments on: iPhone Development: Objective-C Primer

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:58:44 +0000

I found this overview useful, thanks. The Apple ObjC Primer is now officially accessible here too, without login: A nice ObjC tutorial is also available at Cocoa Dev Central:

By: Michael Turyn

Michael Turyn — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:04:50 +0000

The {Objective C}\C part of the language is taken directly from Smalltalk, a pure object-oriented language which uses this syntax throughout…one big difference: Smalltalk didn’t allow strong typing in method declarations—and it was possible to hack each class’ ‘doesNotUnderstand’ response to unknown methods such that you could (for example) delegate incomprehensible messages to another object.

Smalltalk peaked a little too soon: its message-passing paradigm would seem ideally suited to the Intarwebs.

By: Jason Terry

Jason Terry — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:46:53 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:40:03 +0000

This was really useful thank you. I’m not sure if I’m the only one but the syntax seems totally greek to me…. granted i’ve only programmed in java, javascript, c, c++, ruby and written syntax structures in lex and yacc. But I see there might be some method behind the madness:
Take [myArray insertObject:anObj atIndex:0], it basically Forces you to adequately describe you functions so that the are understandable at every call… trying to prevent lazy programming I suppose.

Even still a lighter less foreign syntax would seem to do loads for the first time objective c developer.