$ whois objective-c

Objective-C

first released in 1984 · by Brad Cox, Tom Love

$ guessprog --inspect objective-c

year: 1984
paradigm: multi paradigm
family: c like
memory: reference counting
binding: static
safety: weak

OBJECTIVE-C(7)

AUTHORS: Brad Cox, Tom Love
HISTORY: Brad Cox and Tom Love created Objective-C in the early 1980s at their company Productivity Products International, later renamed Stepstone. Their goal was to add the object-oriented messaging of Smalltalk to plain C, so square-bracket message sends sit right next to ordinary C code. In 1988 Steve Jobs' NeXT licensed the language for its NeXTSTEP operating system, and when Apple bought NeXT in 1997, Objective-C became the language of Mac OS X and, later, the iPhone.
USAGE: Mostly a legacy language today. Large Apple codebases and frameworks are still written in it, but Swift, introduced by Apple in 2014, has replaced it for most new macOS and iOS development.
SEE ALSO: Objective-C on Wikipedia ↗

$ cat main.m

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(void) {
    @autoreleasepool {
        NSArray *parents = @[@"C", @"Smalltalk"];
        NSString *mix = [parents componentsJoinedByString:@" + "];
        NSDictionary *lang = @{@"name": @"Objective-C",
                               @"year": @1984};
        NSLog(@"%@ = %@ (%@)", lang[@"name"], mix, lang[@"year"]);
        NSString *loud = [[mix uppercaseString]
                             stringByAppendingString:@"!"];
        NSLog(@"%@", loud);
    }
    return 0;
}