Preface
Objective-C is verbose. Objective-C is clunky. Objective-C is ugly. I have heard all these things said about Objective-C. On the contrary, I find it elegant, flexible, and beautiful. However, to get it to be these things, you must understand not only the fundamentals but also the quirks, pitfalls, and intricacies: the topic of this book.
About This Book
This book doesn’t teach you the syntax of Objective-C. It is assumed that you know this already. Instead, this book teaches you how to use the language to its full potential to write good code. Objective-C is extremely dynamic, thanks to having its roots in Smalltalk. Much of the work that’s usually done by a compiler in other languages ends up being done by the runtime in Objective-C. ...
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