Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:06:00 +0100
On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 01:06 am, Ondra Cada wrote:
From the ObjC viewpoint (!!!) IOKit is not and can't ever be
object-oriented, since there's nothing like ObjC objects in C++, and
IOKit,
alas, is C++-based :(((
From any *NORMAL* programmers viewpoint, IOKit is object-oriented.
I'm not familiar with DriverKit and how it worked, but I suspect that
IOKit is lowerlevel, since I can't really see running the ObjC runtime
environment inside the kernel as a feasible thing to do.
-- Finlay