Re:The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake
by Jtsummers on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:57PM
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>> you know, like Apple was using that for a little while,
If we discount NeXT's time using it, Apple's only been using Objective-C for 28 years, just a little while. It also (barely) preceded C++.
> And another thing is if you look at the other branch,
> the branch that I'm not really covering very much
> in this talk, because again,
> we don't program in small talk these days, right?
> The closest thing you would get
> is maybe something like Objective-C.
> If there's some people out there using Objective-C,
> you know, like Apple was using that for a little while,
> so Objective-C kind of came
> from a small talk background as well.
Objective-C is basically Smalltalk retrofitted onto C, even more than C++ was Simula retrofitted onto C (before C++ gained template metaprogramming and more modern paradigms), so it makes sense that Muratori doesn't go much into it, given that he doesn't discuss Smalltalk much.