Objective-C is an object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C language. It was created by Brad Cox and Tom Love at their company Stepstone, who wanted to bring the reusability of components in object-oriented programming to the C language. It became widely known after the company NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs, licensed the language and used it for its NeXTSTEP operating system. After Apple bought NeXT, Objective-C became the main language for developing software for Mac OS X, and later for the iPhone and iPad. In 2014 Apple introduced Swift as a modern replacement, and since then Objective-C has gradually been used less for new projects.
Before and after
- 1984Rise of visual kei
- 1984Founding of Lenovo
- 1984Establishment of Great Himalayan National Park
- 1984Creation of MATLAB
- 1984Creation of Objective-C
- 1984Release of LaTeX
- 1984Establishment of Sundarbans National Park
- 1984The Turkana Boy skeleton is found
- 8 January 1984Birth of Kim Jong-un
More in Science & technology
- 1945Invention of computer
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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