Mac OS X Development: Objective-C
Apress eBooks · 2008
Mac developers have a secret weapon that you’re not going to find in the developer tools folder. It’s what allows you to do so much with so little, freeing you to think of all the little things that make Mac applications better for your users. It’s what makes the Mac the easiest, and yet the most powerful, development platform in the world. It’s our language, Objective-C, and it has several advantages: An innovative syntax makes it far more readable than any other C-like language. It is object-oriented, so projects are organized and understandable. It is natively compiled, outperforming any interpreted language. It has a dynamic runtime, making it is as flexible as a scripting language. It augments, rather than replaces, C, letting programmers get close to the machine if they must. It is designed for ease of use, especially Objective-C 2.0.