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Re: Apple should get behind Cocoa Java

On 17/08/2006, at 10:33 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

On 8/16/06, Ian Joyner <email@hidden> wrote:

I agree that suggesting to companies that they retrain their
developers in Objective-C is a bit much because it is only used for
Cocoa applications


If you are going to do any Cocoa development (or related frameworks)
learning Objective-C/C++ is trivial compared to learning the Cocoa
APIs and related programming patterns/paradigms. Seriously in all the
groups that I have worked with, who started to do Cocoa development,
learning Objective-C was the least of the ramp up time involved (often
the Java folks pick it up the fastest in my experience).

Sure, but try suggesting that to a company, especially since Objective-C is a single-platform language. I agree learning Cocoa is huge compared to Objective-C, but my suggestion is that the business world is looking for a more gentle transition to the OS X world, like wheel in the box and it just works.

Ian


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 >Re: Re: Apple should get behind Cocoa Java (From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>)



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