Cited on HN 3 times, 2020–2024, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Pointed to as a primary-source account of Objective-C's origins and the early days of NeXT and Apple.
Computer History Museum oral history of Steve Naroff, an engineer at Stepstone, NeXT and Apple who worked on Objective-C. This first session covers his childhood, music background and early career.
“The Computer History Museum has a two part interview with Steve Naroff, one of the engineers who worked on Objective C” (HN, 2024)
At the risk of putting readers off by the title, there's a video essay on YouTube called "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad"[1]. It's both thoughtful and thought-provoking, although I don't agree with the conclusion. Steve Naroff (from Stepstone/NeXT/Apple) did a recent-ish set of interviews with the Computer History Museum[2][3] and referenced that video a bit (and extemporized about objects in small parts throughout). Side note: Naroff and Brad Cox are set to present a paper on Objective-C at this year's HOPL[4]. I wish it were as readily available as Allen Wirfs-Brock's JS paper for the same conference[5][6]. 1. [link] 2. [this video] 3. [link] 4. [link] 5. [link] 6. [link]
Oral history interviews with Naroff, who discusses objects and Objective-C
Related: - Oral History of Blaine Garst [PDF]: [link] - Oral History of Blaine Garst [Video]: [link] - Oral History of Steve Naroff [PDF]: [link] - Oral History of Steve Naroff [Video]: [this video]
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