My dislike is that it uses [] for method calls. It's like making Objective-English where we swap Z and A and j for o, just for the hell of it.
If thzt sjunds like fun tj yju, thzn gj fjr Jboective-C.
If thzt sjunds like fun tj yju, thzn gj fjr Jboective-C.
[ ] does not mean method call, it is the syntax for a message send.
Objective-C is a super set of C, adding an Smalltalk like object system to C. The delimiters say "I am sending a message", which is different to a method call. Also, without them the language would be much more difficult to parse, and future changes to C could break the language. It's lasted well (first appeared in 1993). Not as long as Lisp, perhaps it needs more [ ] :)
1983, actually.
In Smalltalk and Objective-C, the target of a message is resolved at runtime, with the receiving object itself interpreting the message. ... A consequence of this is that the message-passing system has no type checking.