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Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

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Re: Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

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Does anyone else look at Objective-C code, and just want to puke?

It's certainly a bit different but it's not puke-worthy. For someone who writes Obj-C daily, I'm sure Swift feels pretty different.

Try reading your own perl script you wrote in the 90ies, that's fun.

Re: Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

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How can I run Amiga os on sometthing less exotic?

This is actually a port to the real Amiga, and not one of those new exotic Amigas. But if you want to run AmigaOS 3, you can just use FS-UAE. In fact, that screenshot is from FS-UAE, as always copying things over to a real Amiga can be quite annoying during development :).

Re: Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

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Does anyone else look at Objective-C code, and just want to puke?

It’s not puke inducing, but it is verbose. The language designers just took a different approach to how to write code. Just for some background, it came out at a similar time to c++. Both were designed to be a ‘better c’

Re: Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

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post #5

Does anyone else look at Objective-C code, and just want to puke?

It's certainly a bit different but it's not puke-worthy. For someone who writes Obj-C daily, I'm sure Swift feels pretty different. Try reading your own perl script you wrote in the 90ies, that's fun.

And because objective-C is a very strict superset of C (much more so than C++), it's really critical that the oop extensions have a very different syntax from the C subset. There is little confusion what part of the code is "objective", and what is "C"

Re: Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

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post #7

Does anyone else look at Objective-C code, and just want to puke?

It’s not puke inducing, but it is verbose. The language designers just took a different approach to how to write code. Just for some background, it came out at a similar time to c++. Both were designed to be a ‘better c’

Personally I prefer the brackets of ObjC to the colon overload of C++
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