Objective-C

Objective-C

Objective-C is an object-oriented, compiled programming language invented by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980's. It is an object-oriented superset of C, with dynamic binding and a messaging syntax inspired by Smalltalk. It is meant to be a simpler language than C++, and does not have many features of C++, such as multiple inheritance and operator overloading.

Cox and Love founded StepStone Corporation, from which NeXT licensed the language and created their own compiler. In 1995, NeXT acquired all rights to StepStone's Objective-C related intellectual property.

Apple's Objective-C compiler used in Mac OS X is a modified version of the GNU compiler.