Objective-C was widely known as a challenging, syntax heavy, ‘verbose’ language and lacked many of the features found in “modern” languages. This new language seems quick and efficient.” ...

i mean, what's great about it? it seems to me that the syntax is a little outdated when java's lurking around. why did apple make objective-c the native lanugague for Cocoa and java a second class ...

Specifically, Apple describes the framework as: AppleScriptObjC lets AppleScript objects serve as Objective-C objects in the Cocoa runtime Basically this means that you can use simplistic Objective-C ...

As an example, Objective-C requires programmers to memorize special string tokens (%s, %d, %@) and provide a comma-separated list of variables to replace each token.

"Objective-C syntax together with Cocoa paradigms literally forces you to use MVC everywhere and your application is always winning from this.