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Re:Why Objective-C is Hard by igorgue on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:44PM (#3672239)
You know what I really dislike about Objective-C is that is really inconsistent with properties and messages, at one point I said out loud: JUST PICK ONE! Coming from Python this is a big thing for me, I like when there's only one right way to do things.

P.S. My only experience with Objective-C is with the iOS SDK.

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Re:Why Objective-C is Hard by wvs on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @02:57PM (#3672568)
You may already know this, but properties are just sugar for messages and instance variables. Their only difference is a shorter syntax.

(...plus some extra runtime data, but you don't usually notice that.)

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