Re: It is time for me to take a decision. [Slightly OT]
Re: It is time for me to take a decision. [Slightly OT]
- Subject: Re: It is time for me to take a decision. [Slightly OT]
- From: "Todd Heberlein" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 10:34:01 -0700
- Organization: Net Squared, Inc.
These are more newsgroup-like discussions as opposed to developer
mailing list discussions, so I will make one last comment, and then I
will shutup.
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From: Lloyd Sargent <email@hidden>
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So the question is, how important is portability? ...
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Yeah, portability is a bitch, ...
Portability is crucial for me, and I suspect it is with most developers.
That is why we have ANSI C, ANSI C++, the *Standard* Template Library,
POSIX, etc.
I will recognize and support whatever reasons Apple may have for not
porting Cocoa to other platforms, but I really want Apple to support
access to ANSI C++ from a Cocoa application. For example, I will write
most of my core code in very portable C++, and then I will write custom
user interfaces for Apple using Cocoa and Objective-C that effectively
wraps the C++ code.
In other words, in the Model-View-Controller paradigm, all my Model code
is in C++, and the Controller and View is Objective-C and Cocoa.
So from my perspective, Cocoa on a Mac-only platform is fine *iff* Apple
supports clean access to ANSI C++ through ObjC++.
I will shutup now.
Todd