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Objective C Programming Language

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  • 15-03-2004 1:33pm
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    scojones
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    taken from http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/index.html
    Objective-C is an extension of standard ANSI C , existing C programs can be adapted to use the software frameworks without losing any of the work that went into their original development. Since Objective-C incorporates C, you get all the benefits of C when working within Objective-C. You can choose when to do something in an object-oriented way (define a new class, for example) and when to stick to procedural programming techniques (define a structure and some functions instead of a class).

    I am reading the pdf http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf as i type.. So my query is this. Have any of you programming folk heard of Objective C before? If you're a /. reader i'm sure you have. And if you have heard of Objective C - have you ever used it? What about you guys working in I.T? Does your company employ and Objective C programmers? Or have you written any Objective C code to help with any project you're doing / have done? The pdf is certainly an interesting read, and i'd recommend reading it, to all code geeks on boards.


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    aidan_walsh
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    Hmmm... Kinda reminds me of D


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    casper-
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    Having done a fair amount of OS9/X development, the only way Objective-C is going to help you is if you :

    a) are employed by Apple
    b) like coding for free in your own time making OS X shareware
    c) have an awful lot of free time on your hands and just pick up a new 'methodology' of programming -- I have to say it's _interesting_ at the very least

    Having said that, it would be very difficult finding a job in it, and unless you have tons of experience in it already, convincing a company that's doing a Mac port to use it over Carbon / PowerPlant X is gonna be pretty difficult.

    I'll say it again though, it's neat and fun to play around with for a while :)


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