Board:   [DeveloperNet] Other Languages and Platforms
Subject: Past programming Language
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Wed Oct 14, 2009 19:20

  Re: Past programming Languages
  By: Pbmountaincat to All on Thu Sep 17 2009 16:16:15

 >  > In the category of 'other', whatother types of programming languages not
 >  > mentioned in other areas you have programmed in?

Just yesterday I started looking into Objective-C.  The reason is that I've
wanted to look into developing software for the iPhone platform, which uses
Objective-C as its native programming language.

I find it interesting that Objective-C was another language (besides C++) that
was designed to add classes on top of the C language, and that Objective-C
continues to be used mainly only on the Macintosh and iPhone platforms.  Things
I've heard about Objective-C make it sound superior to C++ in some ways, even
though C++ became the dominant object-oriented language in the late 80s through
the early 2000s.

As a newcomer to Objective-C, the language seems to have a very odd syntax for
declaring classes and calling object methods/functions (which in Objective-C
parlance is more accurately called "sending a message").  For instance, if you
have a class called Fraction, declaring an instance of it and calling methods
onthat instance would look something like this:
Fraction *frac = [[Fraction alloc] init];
[frac setNumerator: 1];
[frac setDenominator: 3];

The syntax seems a bit bizzare to me, but I guess it's one of those things you
get used to as you use the language..

Nightfox

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