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Dr Smalltalk or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Objective-C.

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Objective-C is really, really neat.

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Like, super neat.

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Take C

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1 tbsp Smalltalk

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And a whole bunch of crazy

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and you have Objective-C

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Verbosity means many excellent APIs

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Monkey Patching

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alias_method_chain

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Swizzling

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Object#send

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NSObject: -performSelector:(SEL)sel;

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objc_msgSend

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A wealth of APIs

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Blocks!

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ARC It’s kind of like GC, at compile time.

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It’s not C++.

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Give it a shot.