RE: [OT] Carbon and WWDC'07

• Subject: RE: [OT] Carbon and WWDC'07
• From: "Edwards, Waverly" <email@hidden>
• Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:58:13 -0400
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>>
Whether you or I like it or not, I find it unlikely that the base of
developers will dry up. It may change a bit in its makeup, and there
will probably be fewer, but dry up? Not likely.
<<

Ok, maybe I was being a *bit* histrionic but this really is just the
beginnings of having the door shut in the faces of the procedural
programmers.  Here is the trend.  If I (the collective 'I') decide to
write a language/compiler its going to have to incorporate objective-c
either within the language or compensate for the lack customer facing
interfaces behind the scenes.  If I want to just write programs for the
Mac, I will have to pretty much abandon procedural programming. In
either case I have to buy into objective-c [[regardless]] of the cost.
Its looking more and more like the beginnings of a language desert...
one or a few places to get what you need to survive.  Not that I want to
bring back Pascal as the lingua franca or program in Python but I do
want a choice in how I program my Mac or your Mac.  At the end of the
day, our customers don't care what went into making the product.  They
just want pretty interfaces, precise and consistent results.  As
programmers (Apples customer) we want to make those programs, but at
what cost?  Forcing a single paradigm on us unconscionable and slowly
making only one way to do it is language genocide.  

Thank you for your observations.  I do enjoy reading them.


W.

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