Re: Future Objective-C changes
Re: Future Objective-C changes
- Subject: Re: Future Objective-C changes
- From: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:23:38 +0200
On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 12:19 AM, James Duncan Davidson wrote:
Amen. As somebody who has many moons of Java experience, I found
myself going through the following process when approaching
Objective-C:
* Damn, those square brackets are funny looking
* And what's up with separated arguments?
* And, I have to manage my own memory?
* What's up with loose typing? Isn't that sloppy?
* Hrm, nice how the square brackets make messages obvious
* Wow, separated arguments make for more readable code. Who knew?
[...]
All in all, my two years so far with Objective-C has taught me that
I'm not as much of an object-oriented badass as I thought I was after
working at JavaSoft. The influences of Smalltalk are great--and very
cool. Does ObjC need improvements? Sure. What language doesn't?
Excellent, thank you. And this reminds me that the last time a serious
threat was made to change Objective C, it was to give it a "modern
syntax", and get rid of these funny looking brackets and colons. No, it
was not to make it more Smalltalk like, in that time what passed for
modern was... the Java syntax! The general outcry killed that idea
sometime in 1997.
Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.sente.ch
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