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		smackay on Nov 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sony's next-gen application platform built on Obje... Adding messaging to C to create Objective-C must be one of the most elegant language hacks ever. Brad Cox and Stepstone deserve all the credit not Apple (NeXT).

jonhendry on Nov 25, 2010 [–]

Cox and Stepstone's Objective-C was pretty primitive. NeXT added a lot. Protocols, Categories, etc are from NeXT.

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