This online Linux Journal article provides an introduction to Objective-C for programmers familiar with C++ or any other object-oriented language. Armin Roehrl and Stefan Schmiedl write . . .

“It is a surprising fact that anyone studying GNUstep or the Cocoa Framework will notice they are nearly identical to the NEXTSTEP APIs that were defined ten years ago. A decade is an eternity in the software industry. If the framework (and its programming language — Objective C) came through untouched these past ten years, there must be something special about it. And Objective-C has done more than survive; some famous games including Quake and NuclearStrike were developed using Objective-C.”

“Why Should I Learn Objective-C?”

“Objective-C gives you the full power of a true object-oriented language with exactly one syntax addition to C and, unlike C++, about a dozen additional keywords . . .”

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