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: Craig Reynolds <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:50:17 -0700
Off-topic historical note:
On Apr 20, 2010, at 08:25:04 -0700, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Scott Cherf wrote:
Prior experience with Lisp, or better still KRL would be much more
helpful.
LISP is an odd choice as it’s functional
Church's lambda calculus is purely functional, Lisp the programming language rarely is.
but not OOP,
Be careful what you say around curmudgeonly old Lisp programmers! Lisp has absorbed almost all useful programming technologies since its invention in the 1950s, certainly including OOP. MIT Lisp had the Flavors OOP system by 1980, which influenced and was replaced by CLOS around 1987. Other Lisp OOP systems include Object Lisp and CommonLoops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavors_(programming_language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System
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.
Craig Reynolds
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/
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