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For the past week+ I’ve been reading Programming in Objective-C. That’s not the scary part. The scary part is that I’m thoroughly enjoying it and I might actually like Objective-C better than I like Python. At least so far. “How can that be?” you may ask. “Python’s syntax is so much nicer. And you can do so much with so little typing. And don’t even get me started on memory management. Are you insane???” Perhaps I am. The long and the short of it is I grok Obj-C’s object model better, even though it requires more typing and having explicit getters and setters. And if I use Obj-C, I can use Xcode [yes, I know about PyObjC]. I haven’t gotten to working with files or strings or lists yet, so my opinion my change at a later date [you really can't beat list comprehensions].