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		thomasmallen on Dec 8, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J That's inconsistent with how quickly Apple had Carbon ready using C. Just a matter of effort.

boucher on Dec 9, 2008 [–]

Carbon is a port of C APIs from the classic mac mostly. On top of that, Objective-C is ultimately C, and its easier to talk between the two than Java.

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