{"id":28070,"date":"2020-02-06T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28070"},"modified":"2020-02-06T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:55:08","slug":"objective-c-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/objective-c-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Objective-C Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodaFi_\/status\/1224888274247806976\">Robert Widmann<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodaFi_\/status\/1224888274247806976\">\n<p>Objective-C is a simpler language than Swift.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontology around Objective-C is a minefield of complexity far outweighing anything Swift could hope to approach.<\/p>\n<p>Before you argue with me, take a short <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/CodaFi\/d2fa0ad00cb226558f80aa49a3b82262\">quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/1224975454987157504\">David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/1224975454987157504\">\n<p>I believe I can probably generate a longer list of hard to answer questions in Swift using <em>only<\/em> the behavior of the &ldquo;as?&rdquo; operator, so I&rsquo;m not sure I agree with your premise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Regardless, it&rsquo;s an interesting quiz, though I have quibbles with some of the wording.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Widmann: Objective-C is a simpler language than Swift. The Ontology around Objective-C is a minefield of complexity far outweighing anything Swift could hope to approach. Before you argue with me, take a short quiz. David Smith: I believe I can probably generate a longer list of hard to answer questions in Swift using only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-02-06T20:55:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"3b6276c8-266e-4340-a37d-66b533f47ca3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-02-06T20:55:11Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AO2J2yCZuQ0CjfWa1M_R8ow","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55,800,31,1667,46,30,1666,571,857,54,71],"class_list":["post-28070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-arc","tag-concurrency","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-languagedesign","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-memory-management","tag-nserror","tag-objective-c","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28071,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070\/revisions\/28071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}