Re: [linux-audio-dev] Objective-C (was: gcc, you let me down...)

Tim Goetze wrote: I feel your pain. Python is by far my favorite language ever. However, I've recently been looking for an alternative *compiled* object-oriented language, because let's face it, Python is on average 10 times slower than C. Sometimes you just can't afford it. Enter Objective-C: - STRICT SUPERSET OF C: every valid C program is a valid ObjC program. This makes it trivial to include or link to C code and libraries and to mix procedural, object-oriented and ASM code in the same *file*. - SIMPLE: ObjC is plain C with one syntax addition and a few new keywords. It only extends the C language to support Smalltalk-like object-oriented features, because that's all you're going to need. No more operator overloading, templates, references, 'const', etc. - DYNAMICALLY TYPED: messages (method calls) are delivered according to the dynamic type of the target object, not to some static type. This is how Python works. You can even send an object a message that is not specified in its interface. This might seem like a bad idea, but instead it allows for powerful delegation-based design patterns. - FAST: Objective-C performs dynamically bound message calls very quickly, about 1.5-2.0 times as long as a plain C function call!