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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by cpr on Monday December 08, 2008 @04:41PM (#390420)
No, if they "dragged their feet" it was simply because Java's static OO-ness doesn't map well to Objective-C's fully dynamic nature. Objective-C is basically just Smalltalk semantics (minus control structures) bolted on to C.

It works surprisingly well, but you can't and won't believe it until you try it yourself.

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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by thomasmallen on Monday December 08, 2008 @04:47PM (#390432)
That's inconsistent with how quickly Apple had Carbon ready using C. Just a matter of effort.
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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by boucher on Monday December 08, 2008 @11:12PM (#390934)
Carbon is a port of C APIs from the classic mac mostly. On top of that, Objective-C is ultimately C, and its easier to talk between the two than Java.
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