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Re:Sshole by hnfong on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:40AM (#50379648)
> Microsoft has historically been one of the leaders on the wrong side of this one

Objective-C ahem nil messaging...

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Re:Sshole by sscaryterry on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:46AM (#50379742)
Objective-C is an Apple thingie :)
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Re:Sshole by usefulcat on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:53AM (#50379821)
By way of NeXTSTEP
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Re:Sshole by SoftTalker on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:28AM (#50381134)
NeXT certainly used it extensively but they didn't invent it. Originally developed by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s, per !w.
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Re:Sshole by hnfong on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:19AM (#50381004)
Yes and thus I dispute that Microsoft leads on this front :P
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