
80 9 Chapter 5: The Languages of Mac OS X: Objective-C
ing such a thought might subject you to suspicion on the part of the
language purists.
This chapter starts with a brief summary of how the object-oriented
programming languages developed and diverged. It continues with
some highlights of Objective-C:
9 Dynamism
9 Class and instance objects
9 Protocols
Note that these language chapters are highly interrelated, as they
contrast the differences among the languages. For example, this
chapter discusses Objective-C and
C++
almost equally as it demon-
strates the differences in the languages from the Objective-C side.
The corresponding ...