Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)

Re:Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014) by mucholove on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:58AM (#27604004)

I learned Objective-C this year and I love it.

It is a fantastic language to use because the tradeoff is obviously evident in the language.

You can use Smalltalk for a day. Understand the history. Understand the compromise.

And Objective-C captures a beautiful moment in the trajectory to ever more high level abstraction.

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Re:Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014) by pjmlp on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:13AM (#27604168)

Kind of, they went a bit overboard with @

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Re:Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014) by blacktriangle on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:22AM (#27604244)

I think most of the crazy @ features are in Apple's branch. There's still the GNU version floating around working with OpenStep that is much closer to the original Objective-C vision.

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Re:Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014) by pjmlp on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:49AM (#27604552)

And largely incompatible with modern Objective-C libraries, so of questionable utility.

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