10 Most Popular Programming Languages

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 20 February 2012, 22:27 IST   |    16 Comments
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5. Objective-C

What is it?

This object-oriented programming language created first by Brad Cox and Tom Love at their company Stepstone in the early 1980s, adds Smalltalk-like messaging to the C programming language.

Why is it important?

This language is most used on the Apple iOS and Mac OS X. Objective-C is the principal language used for Apple's Cocoa API as well.