[GRLUG] iPad

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 18:05:45 EST 2010


That's called implementation detail.

I wanted to describe the net effect, not the mechanism. :)

On 1/28/2010 5:55 PM, Ben DeMott wrote:
> Objective C is a "Messaging Language" - But I was more referring to the
> under-the-hood nature of libobjc implemented by GCC (as no formal
> standard exists).
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com
> <mailto:mikemol at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/28/2010 5:36 PM, Ben DeMott wrote:
>      > Objective C - You know for those times when writing C made too much
>      > sense, so you had to put a language inbetween it, convert from that
>      > language to C, then compile the converted code using GCC.
>      > Hot Pockets .... (And yes that was a Jim Gaffigan reference)
>
>     Objective C is, more or less, a more dynamic C++. Several of the
>     features Objective C grants are reimplemented in the Qt widget system.
>     It also has similarities to Perl, PHP and Python, when you consider its
>     object behavior.
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