Introduction

Objective-C is a wonderful language that has received far less attention than it deserves. It has suddenly become (more) popular with the success of Apple's Mac OS X and iPhone, where it is the supreme development language. If you're going to learn a language to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, Objective-C is the language to learn.

The Objective-C language does not feel like it was developed by a committee or a computer science major. It's a language for minimalists and anarchists. Yet it retains many of the features that make Java one of the great programming languages of our time. Objective-C lets you write applications that are every bit as structured and formal as anything you can write in Java. But at the same time, ...

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