Up to now, the principal language for OS X and iOS development has been Objective-C. This is a language based on C with a veneer of object orientation derived from Smalltalk. If you think that sounds like a neat and elegant programming language, I can only assume that you've never used Objective-C. The new language, Swift, retains some C-like syntactical features but it attempts to be much simplified (you can write a 'Hello world' program in a single line of code) to make it as accessible (...)
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