Cocoa® Programming

Chapter 2. Cocoa Language Options

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Object Orientation

• Java

• Objective-C

• Other Languages

• Choosing a Language for Use with Cocoa

• The Use of Objective-C in This Book

Cocoa is a collection of object-oriented components written in the Objective-C language. Objective-C is a flexible and dynamic language that adds object-oriented extensions to ANSI standard C. Because of the flexibility of Objective-C, the Cocoa components can be used by a wide variety of languages besides Objective-C. The key language elements needed to use Cocoa are support for dynamic object orientation and compatibility with the C programming language.

This chapter describes the general features of all languages that can be used with Cocoa, and a brief overview of object-oriented ...