[threeseed]

What on earth are you talking about ?

You do realise that Objective-C was used because iOS is effectively OSX. And OSX is effectively NextStep. Apple is a big company sure but rewriting your entire SDK is never a quick or simple endeavour. So of course when the iPhone came out Objective-C was going to be used.

[wtallis]

And for those who aren't keeping track of the timeline, NeXTSTEP predates C++ templates. Large portions of this could have been done with 1989's Objective-C and the graphics capabilities NeXTSTEP had at the time, though this tool does benefit significantly from some newer syntax.