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Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by mpweiher on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:41AM (#16900778)
Interestingly, Objective-C was not at all designed to be a "better C", it was designed to be, roughly speaking, a more practically useful Smalltalk.

This is all laid out in great detail in the wonderful Object Oriented Programming: an Evolutionary Approach.

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Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by boomlinde on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:09AM (#16903061)
Whatever their intentions were, it was designed to be a "better C" in the sense that it's a strict superset of the C language.
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Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by kenver on Monday April 23, 2018 @06:51AM (#16902186)
Ah my bad, I misremembered a talk I heard once. I'll check out the book. Thanks.
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Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by protomyth on Monday April 23, 2018 @07:20AM (#16902338)
While you are looking, Brad Cox’s other book Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier is well worth a read to get a feel for where he wanted to go.
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