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by yellowapple 4042 days ago
> It would be similarly accurate to say that Objective-C is the Apple C++.

Well it's not inaccurate. Both of them were designed to make C object-oriented, and they tend to be used for many of the same situations because of that.

A more accurate nomenclature would be ".NET's OCaml-equivalent" or "Apple's C++-equivalent" (much like how C# is characterized as ".NET's Java-equivalent). This falls apart with thorough inspection, of course, but it's good enough for tongue-in-cheek comparisons like this.