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My first ever job involved writing communications software using the C programming language (on which Objective-C is based). I inherited some code written by a former employee who loathed the C language and preferred to use another programming language (the name of which escapes me). When I looked at his C code it looked nothing like any C code I had ever seen before in my life. After about an hour of trying to understand how this could be possible (surely the compiler should have refused to compile this) I realized the other programmer had using the #define compiler directive to "modify" the syntax of the C programming language to make it look more like his preferred language. Whilst I am not suggesting that you too go to these lengths it is worth knowing that such adaptability is provided by the #define preprocessor statement.