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And lo, the developers at Apple discovered blocks. There was much rejoicing :)
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There is a difference between "discovered" and "supports"
[James Foster] May 8, 2009 20:17:16.426
For the record, the first paragraph ends with: "Blocks, which are sometimes called closures, are not new to programming; in fact, they were already supported in one of the parent languages of Objective-C: Smalltalk. More recently, languages like Ruby and Java have embraced blocks."
but ...
[ Troy Brumley] May 9, 2009 7:43:54.599
Comment by Troy Brumley
@James Foster, you didn't expect James to actually read past the header, did you? ;)
For the record, Objective-C is pretty cool and I would not mind working in it professionally. It implements the whole idea of "sending messages to objects" better than C# or VB.NET, or even Java from what I recall of it.