Abstract
Apple, when its soul was still called NeXT, sought to speak with its beautiful hardware. No crude language like C, nor the insanity of C++, would do. Instead, it adopted an odd little chimera of a thing called Objective-C. ObjC, to friends, was the project of computer scientist Brad Cox, who wanted to rewrite Smalltalk as a dialect of C.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Scott Meyers and Mike Lee
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Meyers, S., Lee, M. (2009). Mac OS X Development: Objective-C. In: Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1947-7_25
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1947-7_25
Publisher Name: Apress
Print ISBN: 978-1-4302-1946-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4302-1947-7
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied ComputingApress Access BooksProfessional and Applied Computing (R0)