Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > > > Objective-C is cool... on the Mac; I'm not sure how well-supported it is > > elsewhere, though. In addition to C's advantages, it would let you make > > Cocoa GUIs on the Mac easily (with PyObjC &c). But then, the right way > > to study Obj-C from scratch is no doubt to start with C, anyway. > > Objective-C is part of the Gnu Compiler Collection. As such, it's > probably easy to find a working compiler. But I agree - you probably > want to start with C.
BTW, I wouldn't give the same advice re C++ -- if C++ is what you want to know you're probably better off studying C++ itself. But ObjC is neatly partitioned into two sublanguages... C plus a smalltalk-like OO part... and it seems to me that this makes C the natural starting point. > As an aside, if you want to study Eiffel, the book to buy is _Object > Oriented Software Construction_, second edition, by Bertrand > Meyer. Everybody doing OO software should read this book, as the > lessons about constructing inheritance hierarchies are invaluable, > even if the language won't enforce them for you. Even though I'm not enthusiastic about Eiffel per se, I can second the recommendation about Meyer's book; it's interesting and instructive as one very thorough and well-developed vision of OOP. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
