Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> wrote:
> (C is a stupid language to write large applications in. The vast majority
> of bugs in C programs simply don't exist in newer languages. For most of
> the things people use computers for today, it's much more important that
> something works well than that it work fast.)
<obPlug>
Objective-C - now that's a cool language. Took me 4 hours
to learn, and the `% of code that worked as I expected the
first time it compiled' index - one of my favorite measues -
is somewhere around 95% for me. Whereas C is around 80%, and
C++ is about 50% or less.
Objective-C is _much_ less ``surprising'' to the new programmer
than C++, and the ``pace of development'' is far faster, but the runtime
is slightly slower due to the use of dynamic messaging..
(Think C + Smalltalk = Objective C)
</obPlug>
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