Category Archives: OOP

Software-ICs and a component marketplace

Posted on 2012-04-28 by Graham

In the previous post, I was talking about Object-Oriented Programming, an Evolutionary Approach. What follows is a thought experiment based on that. Chapter 6 of Brad Cox’s book, once he’s finished explaining how ObjC works (and who to buy it … Continue reading →

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Comparing Objective-C and Objective-C with Objective-C

Posted on 2012-04-28 by Graham

A while back, I wrote an object-oriented dispatch system for Objective-C. It defines only three things: an object type (the BlockObject), a way to create new objects (the BlockConstructor), and a way to message objects (the dispatch mechanism). That’s all … Continue reading →

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Building an object-oriented dispatch system in Objective-C

Posted on 2012-02-09 by Graham

iTunes was messing about rebuilding the device I was trying to use for development, so I had time over lunch to write a new message dispatch system in the Objective-C language. “But wait,” you say, “Objective-C already has a message … Continue reading →

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