Objective-C(ID:1247/obj012)

OO C dialect 

Brad Cox, Productivity Products (later Stepstone)

An object-oriented superset of ANSI C, incorporating many ideas from Smalltalk (the ICPAKS library)

Implemented as a preprocessor for C. No operator overloading, no multiple inheritance, no class variables. Does have run-time binding.

Used as the system programming language on the NeXT, now on the Cocoa interface.

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C => Objective-C   Evolution of
References:
  • Cox, Brad "Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach", A-W 1986 view details
  • [NeXT Computer] Object Oriented Programming and the Objective C Language, 1993, Addison-Wesley. view details
  • Duncan, Andrew "Objective-C Pocket Reference" O'Reilly & Associates Inc 2002 view details
  • Kochan, Stephen G "Programming in Objective-C" Macmillan Computer Pub 2003 view details