I have watched Congressman Keating since his election. He is an strong and dedicated to constituents. I am a Realtor who believes in protecting property rights of homeowners. Congressman Keating understands the housing issues such as Flood insurance, protecting the Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction and other such issues.
Judging for the closed-ness of Apple, you probably won't get much credible answer from Apple's own people. OS X and iOS are primarily written in Objective-C with some C++ in between (e.g. IOKit, WebKit, etc) and probably some C as well for the kernel stuff. However looking at Apple's software engineering jobs vacancies [1], these are also relevant programming languages at Apple: Java.
Well, both Native Mac and iOS apps are both written in the same programming language â Objective-C â and use the same set of tools to create and build applications. So starting with a command line app is the simplest way to start learning the basics.