some quotes:
"Borrowed largely (or shamelessly copied) from Smalltalk’s message sending syntax ..." "Categories or through runtime functions (more on those soon) itself, but Objective C’s objects pale in comparison to those of a Smalltalk-like environment, where objects are always live and browsable" "So if a successor language is to emerge, it’s got to come from elsewhere." "It seems absurd that 30 years after the Mac we still build the same applications the same ways. It seems absurd we still haven’t really caught up to Smalltalk. It seems absurd beautiful graphical applications are created solely and sorely in textual, coded languages. And it seems absurd to rely on one vendor to do something about it." see http://nearthespeedoflight.com/article/2014_02_06_objective_c_is_a_bad_language_but_not_for_the_reasons_you_think_it_is__probably__unless_you___ve_programmed_with_it_for_a_while_in_which_case_you_probably_know_enough_to_judge_for_yourself_anyway__the_jason_brennan_rant
