Objective-C

Objective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style message passing (messaging) to the C programming language. Originally developed by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s, it was selected by NeXT for its NeXTSTEP operating system. Due to Apple macOS’s direct lineage from NeXTSTEP, Objective-C was the standard language used, supported, and promoted by Apple for developing macOS and iOS applications from 1997, when Apple purchased NeXT until the introduction of the Swift language in 2014. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1984
Designed by: Brad Cox
Aliases: Obj-C, ObjC, Obj-C programming language, Objective C, Objc, Objective-C (programming language), Objective-C programming language, Objective C programming language
File extensions: C, h, m, mm

Wikidata: Q188531

Influenced: Java • Objective-J • Sleep • Swift • TOM

Influenced by: C • Smalltalk

Programming paradigms: class-based programming • multi-paradigm programming • object-oriented programming • reflective programming

Language types: class-based programming language • multi-paradigm programming language • object-based language • reflective programming language