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0 pointsmpweiher7y ago0 comments

Interestingly, Objective-C was not at all designed to be a "better C", it was designed to be, roughly speaking, a more practically useful Smalltalk.

This is all laid out in great detail in the wonderful Object Oriented Programming: an Evolutionary Approach.

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boomlinde7y ago

Whatever their intentions were, it was designed to be a "better C" in the sense that it's a strict superset of the C language.

kenver7y ago

Ah my bad, I misremembered a talk I heard once. I'll check out the book. Thanks.

protomyth7y ago

While you are looking, Brad Cox’s other book Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier is well worth a read to get a feel for where he wanted to go.

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