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Aaron Hillegass wrote a post on this, and makes a case for learning objective-c.

http://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/ios-developers-need-to-know...

* For those unfamiliar with Aaron, he's one of the foremost authors and teachers of Mac and iOS development -- going all the way back to NeXT. He's gonna be a little biased towards Objective-C, but what he has to say is definitely of interest.

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I've read this post. I would still recommend that you jump straight into Swift. Objective-C has its own set of quirks and pain points. If I was starting over, I would go straight to Swift. It's an altogether nicer and more consistent language.

I agree if just to not go back 15 years and start writing header files again.

I posted the link because Aaron is an important voice in Mac/iOS development, but I personally lean more towards your point-of-view.

If one is starting out today, I'd highly recommend digging into swift immediately.

Good read, thanks for the link.

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