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Re: Converting nibs (Re: [ANN] Nano 1.4)

On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:

I'm sure the current IB was not responsible (there is no "I" in team -- especially when there's no one on the team ;), but let's just say the experience left some deep scars.


There's no "I", but there's a "Me" if you jumble up the letters :-)


Anywhere else Apple can better help you through this transition?


Sure. I need the e-mail address of someone who will convert my Carbon nibs to Cocoa nibs and rewrite all the code that needs to be rewritten but won't result in anything any user will be able to detect.


Welcome to the world of the Pascal developer, whom there was a fair bit of trivializing of on this list, what, two weeks ago?  Pascal was the language that Apple wanted you to use, back in 1984, but it was transitioned out in favour of C/C++ a decade later.  Some chose to convert, spending a lot more time than you face, with mixed success.  Others (including myself,) chose to stick with the legacy code, again, with mixed success.  I still maintain several legacy projects in Pascal, but anything new is written in C++ or (in the last couple of years,) Objective C (I'm not the world's most observant person, but the "Use Cocoa" writing's been on the wall for quite some time.)

You have the same option -- maintain your current code, with the realization that eventually you'll face obsolescence, or start over, with the realization that you'll be spending tons of time, money and effort on something that will not likely impress any of your users, at least until you can leverage the new stuff you'll have access to.

If Apple (or a third party, like the FPC/GPC guys have for Pascal,) provides you some tools to make that happen, all the better, but the road before you has been trod by many people, on many platforms.  It sucks, but language obsolescence is just one of those facts of life of this industry.


dale

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