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Re: Damn sisters :-)

> First of all, I would like to thank you for all the patience you spend in
> teaching a newbie like me the right way to understand Cocoa and
> Objective-C. Thank you again !! :-))
> I understand now the usefulness of encapsulation.

:-) nice!

> Very often when I read the docs before asking a question to you, I'm in
> trouble just with the brand new terminology of Obj-C.
> I newer went to the words "encapsulation", "implementation", "interface"
> before (I was using Amiga together with AmigaE language and StormC
> compiler... ;-)) so my main difficulty is to "remap" all the new words to
> the old concepts I stored into my mind [programming languages do all the
> same kinda things...maybe just a little better]
> Just to make an example, in Obj-C there are not the words "constructor"/
> "deconstructor" I was familiar with on C++ but "istantiation", "release"
> and so on...

No 'implementation', 'encapsulation' or 'instanciation' in C++?

Partially what you say about remapping, is true, but it is also important to
totally rethink things. OOP is drastically different from procedural
languages (and no, we do _not_ want a discussion on what the opposite of OOP
is ;) on so many levels, and sometimes knowing a procedural language may
stop you from fully seeing the power of the new language you are learning...

> But I must admit that I'm getting slowly into the mechanism, and I must
> say that:
>
> 1) Cocoa is beautiful (so much power and flexibility)

Indeed.

> 2) MacOS X is the most advanced OS, just because it's relatively easy to
> program, even for a stupid like me ! :-)

Mac OS X is one of the most powerful OSes in many ways. Cocoa stands out
more than any other aspect imho.

> PS : How many of you guys were advanced NeXTStep developers ?!?

Not I! Never saw a single NeXT-box :((...

/ david

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 >Re: Damn sisters :-) (From: Riccardo Santato <email@hidden>)



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