[jshier]

Wow, Cox's original Objective-C book? Interesting historically, but it's hard to imagine it was of much pragmatic use, even if you're working in Obj-C as your day-to-day. Still, it's an interesting artifact of the early OO age, and the metaphor of libraries of objects as integrated circuits was interesting.

[rectang]

Yes! And I wouldn't have picked it, but I went along with it when someone else wanted to read it.

The "software IC" metaphor may not have caught on, but these artifacts of early experimentation, competitors against what evolved into mainstream OOP, are many times more interesting to read than the Nth "OOP sux" article.

EDIT: I just went back over some of my notes... Cox predicted that companies would compete to provide different implementations of common interfaces ("software ICs"). In restrospect, that didn't happen but Cox's prediction was wrong in such an interesting way: software orgs rather than customers assumed control over interfaces.