On 6/9/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Smalltalk, Self, or Ruby would probably be a better place to start. I'd like to recommend Objective-C, except that the memory management piece is more complicated than I like, plus I haven't seen a decent book on it yet.
Agreed on the memory management although Objective-C is finally getting full gc in the next Mac OS X (Leopard). Haven't read it myself, but 4.5 stars off 29 reviews is encouraging: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Stephen-Kochan/dp/0672325861/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3663919-7533600?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181514220&sr=8-1 I spent a lot of time with Objective-C on NeXTstep and really enjoyed it. Lots of good OO borrowed from Smalltalk, lots of runtime speed and a true superset of C. All things considered though, I'm a C# or Python guy these days. -Chuck -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
