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Ask Slashdot: Which Classic OOP Compiled Language: Objective-C Or C++?
Qbertino writes: I've been trying to pick up a classic, object-oriented, compiled language since the early 90s, but have never gotten around to it. C++ was always on my radar, but I'm a little torn to-and-fro with Objective-C. Objective-C is the obvious choice if you also want to make money developing for Mac OS X, but for the stuff I want to do, both languages would suffice on all platforms. I do want to start out on x86 Linux, though, and also use it as my main development platform. Yes, I know quite a few other languages, but I want to get into a widespread compiled language that has good ties into FOSS. Both Objective-C and C++ fit that bill. What do you recommend? How do these two programming languages compare with each other, and how easy is cross-platform development in either? (Primarily GUI-free, "headless" applications.)
Which is actually kind of sad, as an object oriented superset of C Objective-C is much much better than C++(for starters it's an actual superset of C, unlike C++). However it never gained any traction outside of the Apple ecosystem.
Monstar L
I don't get the whole debate. Programming is independent of language any good programmer should be able to learn a new language in a few days. In my career I've developed applications in four different assembly languages, java, Pascal, C++, basic, etc. It's just a matter of reviewing the syntax and doing the same things in slightly different ways.
Indeed -- learn LISP. Lambda variables, recursion, all atoms being true objects. Then you can redefine the language to pretend to be any of the other HLLs out there.
Problem is, all the lessons that were learned with LISP have since been forgotten and are doomed to be made again and again.