Appendix A
Coming to Objective-C from Other Languages
Many programmers come to Objective-C and Cocoa from other languages and have a hard time learning Objective-C because it behaves differently from most other popular languages. New Objective-C programmers often assert that Objective-C is a bad language because it does not have behaviors X, Y, Z, which TheirFavoriteLanguage has. And feature checklists aside, let's face it: in some respects, Objective-C is just plain weird.
The advice we can offer new Objective-C and Cocoa programmers—even those with years of experience in other languages and other platforms—is to set aside any preconceived notions of how things are supposed to work and accept Objective-C, Cocoa, and Xcode on their own terms ...
