Possible @property compromise

[SomeDude]

On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 14:48:15 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:39:56 -0000, jerro <a at a.com> wrote:
>
>>> Now we're just name calling ;)  I tend to think that for the 
>>> most successful company in the business to standardize on it 
>>> is a pretty good testimony to it being well designed.
>>
>> This is a really bad argument. The facts that language is 
>> being used by a large companies does not make it well 
>> designed. See PHP, for example - a *horrible* mess of a 
>> language, but it is being used at Facebook.
>
> Small point.  "using" != "standadized on".  The latter implies 
> some evaluation and decision making was done prior to the 
> choice, the former.. well..
>
>> (I don't have an opinion on objective C though, as I don't 
>> know the language)
>
> Neither.
>
> R

I bet the reason why Objective-C was chosen rather than C++ has 
more to do with licensing issues (LLVM wasn't rady at the time) 
and maybe GC than any other reason.