• Objective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style message passing (messaging) to the C programming...
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    C, C++ now[when?] supports most of C, with a few exceptions. Objective-C was originally a thin layer on top of C, and remains a strict superset of C that...
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  • Look up objective or objectivé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Objective may refer to: Objectivity, the quality of being confirmed independently of...
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  • language. It can and is used to process other kinds of files. C, C++, and Objective-C compilers provide a preprocessor capability, as it is required by the...
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  • Cppdepend Cpplint ECLAIR Eclipse Fluctuat Frama-C GCC Helix QAC Facebook Infer Klocwork Lint LDRA Testbed Parasoft C/C++test PC-lint Plus Polyspace PVS-Studio...
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  • Apple intended Swift to support many core concepts associated with Objective-C, notably dynamic dispatch, widespread late binding, extensible programming...
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  • Class implementation file (category Articles with example Objective-C code)
    implementation code for the method(s) of a class. Programming languages like C++ and Objective-C make use of these implementation files so as to separate the interface...
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  • OCaml (/oʊˈkæməl/ oh-KAM-əl, formerly Objective Caml) is a general-purpose, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language which extends the Caml dialect...
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  • predecessors that influenced C's design such as BCPL. Notable programming sources use terms like C-style, C-like, a dialect of C, having C-like syntax. The term...
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  • languages Objective-C or Swift. However, the Cocoa programming environment can be accessed using other tools. It is also possible to write Objective-C Cocoa...
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  • GNUstep is a free software implementation of the Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for Unix-like...
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  • Closure (computer programming) (category Articles with example Objective-C code)
    as C++, C#, D, Java, Objective-C, and Visual Basic (.NET) (VB.NET), these features are the result of the language's object-oriented paradigm. Some C libraries...
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    the Objective-C traditionally had no garbage collection, with the release of OS X 10.5 in 2007 Apple introduced garbage collection for Objective-C 2.0...
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  • abstract operations like a virtual table for single dispatch type OOP. In Objective-C, a function object can be created from the NSInvocation class. Construction...
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  • malloc and free from C through a foreign function interface. Ada C C++ Fortran Nim Pascal Rust Objective-C Zig Modula-3 Nim Objective-C Perl Swift Visual...
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  • an American computer scientist who was known mostly for creating the Objective-C programming language with his business partner Tom Love and for his work...
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    respectively. Also, in Objective-C compilers that support C99, C's _Bool type can be used, since Objective-C is a superset of C. Forth (programming language)...
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    proposals. The core syntax of the C# language is similar to that of other C-style languages such as C, Objective-C, C++ and Java, particularly: Semicolons...
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  • Objective-C has a common coding style that has its roots in Smalltalk . Top-level entities, including classes, protocols, categories, as well as C constructs...
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  • Reflective programming (category Articles with example Objective-C code)
    runtime system to provide information about the source code. A compiled Objective-C executable, for example, records the names of all methods in a block...
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  • Type signature (category Articles with example Objective-C code)
    It is idiomatic to specify argument types but not return type. In the Objective-C programming language, method signatures for an object are declared in...
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  • PyObjC is a bidirectional bridge between the Python and Objective-C programming languages, allowing programmers to use and extend existing Objective-C libraries...
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    in December of that year. Front ends were later developed for Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran, Ada, Go, D, Modula-2, Rust and COBOL among others....
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  • Objective-C are almost the same as those in Smalltalk-80—not surprising since Objective-C borrows a lot from Smalltalk. Like Smalltalk, in Objective-C...
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    C++ (/ˈsiː plʌs plʌs/, pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP or CXX) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created...
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  • Name mangling (category C++)
    and MSVC C++ symbols The Objective-C Runtime System – From Apple's The Objective-C Programming Language 1.0 Calling conventions for different C++ compilers...
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    include Ada, ActionScript, C++, Common Lisp, C#, Dart, Eiffel, Fortran 2003, Haxe, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Logo, MATLAB, Objective-C, Object Pascal, Perl...
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  • Boxing (computer programming) (category Articles with example Objective-C code)
    other hand, C# has no primitive wrapper classes, but allows boxing of any value type, returning a generic Object reference. In Objective-C, any primitive...
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  • 1970s. It featured an object-oriented programming framework based on the Objective-C language. This environment is known today in the Mac world as Cocoa....
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  • Automatic Reference Counting (category Objective-C)
    of the Clang compiler providing automatic reference counting for the Objective-C and Swift programming languages. At compile time, it inserts into the...
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