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>Objective-C was Apple’s response to object-oriented programming

Apple's response? At its inception it had nothing to do with Apple and for a long time was the language of NeXT. It's only since OSX that Apple has adopted Objective-C.



NeXT bought Apple for minus US$400 million and renamed itself Apple ;-)

Apple's CEO came from NeXT, as did their lead software architect. OSX is NeXT (ever wonder why so many things extend NSObject?).


FYI, NeXTs' CEO was Apple's CEO first. The parents point is correct.


Actually...no. Jobs was never CEO until after the NeXT merger.


Since it's not mentioned anywhere, Obj-C was invented by Brad Cox and Tom Love and NeXT licenced it from them.


to add, if you haven't read Brad Cox's books then you really should. They are not heavy technical, but give time to some serious ideas. They are a little hard to get ahold of these days.




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