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    1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic. (source) Commented Mar 31, 2012 at 5:08
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    It falls into the range where performance doesn't matter much. It's the sole supported language for interfacing to Cocoa, so if you want to do that, nothing else works at all. For anything else, I'd consider it a terrible choice, regardless of performance. Commented Mar 31, 2012 at 5:20
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    "performance" isn't a characteristic of a language, but of a language implementation and, more importantly, of the programs written in that language. You can write very fast programs in Objective-C, or you can write very slow ones. Commented Apr 1, 2012 at 7:12
  • It fails in having hideous syntax but it isn't a bad performing language based on its current compilers since the performance is more based on the compiler/vm than the actual language. Commented Oct 9, 2013 at 15:37