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While today Objective-C is primarily known as the language for creating iPhone apps, its development dates back to the 1980s. Soon after being created, it was licensed by Steve Jobs’ company NeXT Computer Inc. to develop NeXTStep frameworks and it later become a groundwork of many iconic Apple products. Based on two other languages, C and Smalltalk, it received its object syntax from Smalltalk, and syntax for non-object-oriented operations from the C language. Therefore, one of the characteristics of the Objective-C language is that it’s very mature and has been tested by several generations of developers.