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0 pointsjspthrowaway13y ago0 comments

> Well Objective C is a separate language entirely.

Not quite; Objective-C is a superset of C. You can write pure C and compile it as Objective-C all day long.

This is an important point because people think their C knowledge doesn't translate to Objective-C, mainly because people say things like "it's entirely different". At its core, it really isn't -- the superset syntax becomes straight C underneath.

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jballanc13y ago

Beyond that, even, you can write Objective-C in pure C99. The brackets, class definitions, and all the rest is a sort of syntactic sugar that converts directly to a handful of straight C functions (you can find them all here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa...)

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