Jews wanting their jewgold during the iPhone appstore goldrush.
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Anonymous2011-05-01 8:26
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I heard Steve Jobs wanted Smalltalk, but machines at the time had limited amount memory and programmers were already brainwashed with Unix, so Jobs had to invent his famous "Think different but in the same way" style, where difference is only in cosmetic.
It's a surprisingly nice and efficient language, once you get the hang of it. Combined with Xcode it even manages to make GUI programming not a chore. I think one of the biggest hurdles to overcome is the fact that many things are not enforced by any standard, just by convention in the frameworks (eg. object ownership, -property: and -setProperty: accessors before the introduction of synthesized accessors and so on) and it can take a while to discover them.