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Re: ObjC vs Java -- NEWBIE

At 10:16 -0800 5/2/04, email@hidden wrote:

Also, your questions suggest that you're not making the very important distinction between *language* and *libraries*. Most of your questions aren't about the languages themselves, but about what libraries are available for each language. (Objective-C isn't Cocoa, and Java isn't Swing.)

Well... strictly speaking of course you're right. But for me, and I suspect many other people, one of the main attractions of Java is precisely that is *does* specify a cross-platform API, and therefore is much more than *just* a language.

That was always the argument from the Microsoft world: "Java is a neat language, but it's just a language. People should be able to use whatever language they want... as long as they use Win32 APIs!", to which everyone else replies "but we don't want to use Win32, we want to be able to run on *other* platforms".

So, I'm afraid from my point of view Java *is* Swing (assuming you're writing cross-platform GUI applications of course), and other technologies (SWT, Cocoa-Java, etc.), whatever their merits, are complete non-starters. But that's just me.

-Rolf
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Rolf Howarth, Square Box Systems Ltd, Stratford-upon-Avon UK.
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