Objective-C was created primarily by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s at their company Productivity Products International (PPI) See more

Objective-C's features often allow for flexible, and often easy, solutions to programming issues.
• Delegating methods to other objects and remote invocation can … See more

Objective-C today is often used in tandem with a fixed library of standard objects (often known as a "kit" or "framework"), such as Cocoa, GNUstep or ObjFW. These libraries often … See more

• C (programming language)
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Objective-C is a thin layer atop C and is a "strict superset" of C, meaning that it is possible to compile any C program with an Objective-C compiler and to freely include C language code within an Objective-C class.
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Objective-C++
Objective-C++ is a language variant accepted by the front-end to the GNU Compiler Collection and Clang, which can compile source files that use a combination of C++ and Objective-C syntax. Objective … See more

Objective-C implementations use a thin runtime system written in C , which adds little to the size of the application. In contrast, most object-oriented systems at the time that it was created used large virtual machine runtimes. Programs written in Objective-C … See more