Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C

Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by comrade1 on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:22AM (#9776266)

I remember when I moved from obj-c to java (as WebObjects made the same transition) and being amazed at just how bad the java standard libraries where compared to the obj-c foundation and other nextstep libraries. The obj-c libraries were so nice and clean and focused.

Funny to see the 'oak' name reused - it's now an Apache project for a jcr backend.

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by protomyth on Thursday June 25, 2015 @09:14AM (#9777607)

The difference between WebObjects as a obj-c program to java program was just heart breaking. You could further see the pain of transition in the Java bridge for Cocoa. It really showed the mismatch between obj-c and java.

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by cturner on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:46AM (#9776477)

Do you remember any of the the names of method calls that were created by converting the objective-c libs into java?

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by threeseed on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:38AM (#9776619)

If you mean WebObjects its libraries used almost the exact same method names e.g.

  EOUtilities.objectsMatchingKeyAndValue(key, value);

You can still see a lot of the original code in Project Wonder e.g.

https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder/blob/master/Frameworks...

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by cturner on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:49AM (#9776663)

Thanks - found one I was thinking of, addObjectToBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by hugi on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:12AM (#9776734)

Or EODatabaseContext.qualifierForLockingAttributesPrimaryKeyAttributesEntitySnapshot().

Work with WO made me prefer this style of long, self documenting method/variable names.

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