[geeks] [rescue] Mainframe on eBay

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:18:27AM +0000, Peter wrote:
> Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > I've now spent the past three days working on Objective C. For years
> > I was sure I'd love it because it sounded so nice and clean, but now
> > that I'm using it, I find that I don't like the syntax. Drat. Maybe
> > it will start to grow on me eventually. I can only hope.
> 
> There's also the separate construction and initialisation steps for
> objects, and manually freeing memory. Type and name checking is
> generally deferred until run time, and you'll usually not get a
> helpful error message when this happens. The nineteen-eighties called,
> and they want their programming language back.
> 
> About the only reason Objective C is still around not a historical
> warning of what not to do when designing a language is because Apple
> didn't fancy re-implementing NextStep in C++ when they turned it into
> Cocoa.

I don't know.  I still think Objective C might be better than C++.

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Joshua D. Boyd
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