On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 8:58:36 PM UTC-4, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 08:17 am, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>
> > Steve D'Aprano <ste...@pearwood.info> writes:
>
> >> Here's the same program in Objective C:
> >>
> >> --- cut ---
> >>
> >> #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
> >>
> >> int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
> >> {
> >> NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
> >> NSLog (@"Hello, World!");
> >> [pool drain];
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> --- cut ---
> >>
> >> Which would you rather write?
> >
> > That's a rather odd comparison. Why not
> >
> > #import <stdio.h>
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> > printf("Hello world\n");
> > return 0;
> > }
>
>
> Because that's not Objective-C? (This is not a rhetorical question.)
>
> I'm not an Objective-C expert, but to my eye, that doesn't look like
> Objective-C. It looks like plain old regular C.
>
> Here's where I stole the code from:
>
> https://www.binpress.com/tutorial/objectivec-lesson-1-hello-world/41
>
> and its not too dissimilar from the versions here:
>
> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text#Objective-C
>
>
> > ? It's decades since I wrote any Objective-C (and then not much) but I
> > think this is the closest comparison.
>
>
>
> --
> Steve
> “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
> enough, things got worse.
It is Objective-C. You are mistaken taking NS extensions to function names as a
part of Objective-C. There are not. It is from NextStep/Sun implementation.
Because they are always used a lot of people tend to think that they are part
of Objective-C - but they are not - they are just libraries.
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