Matt Galloway - Effective Objective-C 2.0: 52 specific ways to improve your iOS and OS X programs

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52 Specific Ways to Improve Your iOS and OS X Programs

Matt Galloway

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To Rosie

Objective-C is verbose. Objective-C is clunky. Objective-C is ugly. I have heard all these things said about Objective-C. On the contrary, I find it elegant, flexible, and beautiful. However, to get it to be these things, you must understand not only the fundamentals but also the quirks, pitfalls, and intricacies: the topic of this book.