Objective-C Is Kicking Butt in the Programming World - Application Development - News & Reviews - eWeek.com

Another ultimately industry-altering aspect of the NeXTSTEP operating system; see Wikipedia for more historical dimensions and the article link below for an Objective-C feature overview

"Objective-C, the language of the Apple world of iOS and the Mac OS X, recently overtook C++ in a key index that measures the most popular programming languages in use today. The TIOBE programming community index shows Objective-C as the third most popular programming language behind first-place C and second-place Java, suggesting that the popularity of mobile development is outpacing that of enterprise app development and building large high-performance systems—where Java and C++ typically reign."

Objective-C Is Kicking Butt in the Programming World - Application Development - News & Reviews - eWeek.com