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the part that really threw me off was the IBOutlet syntax. Relating the gui tool to the code itself seems bizarre, but I understand I'm in the minority. I just happened to have learned objective C under somewhat less common circumstances.

The tool exists though, so that Apple can bring more developers on board. Providing usable tools is not something I intend to complain about with respect to Apple.

People whine and moan about Xcode, but some of us started out writing this code in cygwin with an arm cross-compiler and deployed binaries via ssh... debugging tools included printf or forcing crashes. Fun times trying to guess at data structures and naked pointers, but I'm quite content with Xcode and gdb and graphical debuggers and whatever else Apple wants to provide for me :)