'Uncle' Bob Martin - A brief history of Obj-C

Uncle Bob recalls the history of Obj-C. How did an obscure C based language from Brad Cox become the programming language of choice for Steve Jobs, OSX and iOS, lasting for more than 30 years?

@unclebobmartin

Robert C. Martin has been a programmer since 1970. He is the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, an acclaimed speaker at conferences worldwide, and the author of many books including: The Clean Coder, Clean Code, Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, and UML for Java Programmers.

[NSResponder]

7:20 I was very happy with Obj-C for over twenty years, and so were a lot of other NeXTSTEP and Mac OS customers.

[Avelinovski]

Excellent talk, loved it - and brilliant delivery! :^)

[JoeGrimer]

enjoyable talk - camera work is a bit rough after a while though

[godblessCL]

True, no need for too much new languages.

[lockbert]

Wikipedia say Objective-C released in 1984 and that Cox had no experience with Smalltalk until 1981.

[tscoffey]

Had Smalltalk been the language adopted by the OO programming world, instead of C++, we would be in a much happier place now.

[johnyepthomi]

This video has been renamed. It initially was titled "future of programming" but he ended up talking more about the history of languages. Funny but Informative nonetheless.

[sagielevy]

Such good delivery, and the sentence "it should've stayed in the trash where it belongs!" is the concise description of ObjC. I write with it for 3+ years and hate more every day. Swift's great though

[johnjoyce]

Sooo much inaccuracy. Macintosh, 1984 not 83. Most famous commercial no less. Dates on Objective-C and C++ are also way off. This guy should go back home.

[rezzob]

you can’t stop “invention” of new languages not linux distros or desktops or package managers etc because of the snobby geek culture. think coffee snobs, do they stop finding the next fad?