Re: Objective-C Programming

[Jonathan B. Leffert]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:37:10AM -0800, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> I would even go so far as to say that, if you don't know scrap about C
> but want to learn Objective-C, skip C and go directly to the latter.

This is an interesting point.  Part of the problem, of course, is that
there aren't a lot of references for Objective-C in the way there are for,
say, C or C++ or Java.

Ideally, one would want to know C, to understand object-oriented
concepts---something the Abelson and Sussman book is actually pretty good
at in a weird sort of way---and understand how Objective-C melds the two.
The C knowledge is actually quite useful for Objective-C programming as
it's often necessary, beneficial, useful or handy to drop to C APIs and use
fundamental C data structures for either performance reasons or for
interfacing with C libraries.

Jonathan