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Re: Objective C language [NEWBEE QUESTIONS]

On Jan 30, 2004, at 04:08, Alexander F. Hartner wrote:

I have been playing with objective C for some time now, but the number
of questions seem to increase as I learn more about the language. My
background lies in Java development so I am familiar with OO.

Others have answers your points, but I want to add a meta comment. The style of Object-Orientation exhibited by Java is quite different from the style of OO exhibited by Objective-C. In may places, they are similar enough to make a transition of concepts, and even to co-exist to a remarkable degree when you use them together.

But, Objective-C is a very much more dynamic environment than Java is. And because of this, you really gotta be careful of trying to code ObjC like you would code Java. For the first 6 months I was hacking ObjC, I tried to push it into the Java mindset. After all, I'd been working in Java for many moons.

Once I let go of that and let it be what it was and started exploiting the strengths of ObjC, life was better.

duncan
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