I'd like to point out that pursuing the Carbon/Cocoa merge/
parallelism is the mind stretch that Apple engineers need to keep
up. If you only develop one side of your brain and let the other
atrophy, then an imbalanced personality results. Similarly, I would
not wish Mac OS X to become a semi-witted Cocoa entity. In order to
maintain OS dynamism, a tension between the API sets must exist.
I think you should start writing a novel about the demise of Carbon
and the appearance of a super-hero who's going to save the Carbon
world before it
gets dominated by horrible Cocoa monsters.
Now more seriously, I think your attack on the views expressed by
Mike Dash are misguided and unfair. I love Carbon and C++. I hate
Obj-C syntax
and Cocoa, but that's life. Like you, I'm upset that one of Apple's
managers pull the plug on Carbon, but attacking someone who wants to
inform
others about the work he / she might have on porting apps to Cocoa
is somewhat mind-boggling, especially when you use an argument that
every
thing that is written on this list about Cocoa must be compared to
Carbon.
I am thankful that you are always willing to help others - I really
am -, but this argument of yours does not make any justice to the
better side of you.
Anyway, I like the democracy methaphor you have used, but perhaps
you should direct your anger / ire / discomfort towards those who
have made
that fateful decision and find the real wolf in your story.
Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat Cocoa-cake. Ha! Ha! Ha!".
World famous dietitian: "You need a well balanced diet".
Guess what? Marie gets the guillotine.
Philip Aker
echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@
Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
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