Tag Archives: objective-C

Objective-C and Smalltalk

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

I just stumpled upon an old tweet by Matt Kennedy: Objective-C isn’t too bad, but after using #smalltalk I feel like I’ve had a first class flight downgraded to the luggage compartment. I feel his pain. XCode and IB are … Continue reading →

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Interesting Article on Smalltalk by David Chisnall

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

I just stumbled upon an article that interested Smalltalkers may have known for weeks already. It’s part 3 of a series called Influential Programming Languages and has been published on InformIT back in January 2011. It discusses which programming languages … Continue reading →

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Objective-C 2, Xcode 4, LLVM, what’s next?

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Objective-C and Cocoa are a nice environment to work in. The nicety of Cocoa comes from the fact that it is an object runtime system rather than a bunch of objects compiled into a running program. A Nib file (or … Continue reading →

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The “feels like dynamic” trend

Posted on January 7, 2010 by

I found an interesting tweet by Gilad Bracha through pharoproject: Mainstream programming language syntax is like human sacrifice: evil, yet once entrenched, difficult to get rid of. But one answer to it is even nicer: Every new typed programming language … Continue reading →

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Can we risk investing in iPhone development?

Posted on November 17, 2009 by

I’ve been asking myself this question quite a few times already. We have a few little tools that could possibly be of use to a wider raneg of users, and there are a few ideas about what we could possibly … Continue reading →

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