Re: Getting Started with Objective C and Xcode?
Re: Getting Started with Objective C and Xcode?
- Subject: Re: Getting Started with Objective C and Xcode?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:25:04 -0700
On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Scott Cherf wrote: There's no real resemblance between C and Objective C, knowing how to write a program in C won't help much. As a 9-year veteran of Obj-C I strongly disagree. The object model of Obj-C has no resemblance to C, since C doesn’t have objects. It was strongly inspired by Smalltalk-80. But the actual language syntax and semantics apart from the OOP features are plain C.
Prior experience with Lisp, or better still KRL would be much more helpful. LISP is an odd choice as it’s functional but not OOP, where Obj-C is the opposite. {OK, blocks in 10.6 are kind of functional, but again they are much closer to ST-80.} Syntactically the only thing they have in common is brackets around function calls. LISP lacks static typing, Obj-C lacks code-as-data. They’re about as different as can be.
—Jens |
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