Re: Objective-C Programming

[Chris B. Vetter]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:42:09 -0800
"Jonathan B. Leffert" <jonathan@leffert.net> wrote:
> 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.

I would certainly recommend taking a look at

  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf

-- 
Chris