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I like the message sending syntax of objective-c. At first it was so weird, but now I almost hate looking at anything else.

After awhile, I think most people even begin to appreciate it's verbosity. You can make it read like english pretty well.

Of course, I'm sure I wouldn't like Objective-C without Cocoa or I wouldn't like writing it on Windows.

I've never been able to get round the whole whitespace thing in Python and Ruby. I really like brackets and they've always been the strongest thing to signal where code starts and ends.



A minor correction: Ruby is not as whitespace dependent as Python. Ruby uses "end" to end blocks, not changed indentation. Whitespace matters though in other ways, for example newlines and in some places if there is a space or not.




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