Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:29:27 -0400
On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 04:06 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
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.
Actually, Stan Shebbs mentioned something about this at the
Stepwise BOF at MacWorld back in January..
The gist of it was that they'd probably have been better off
sticking with Obj-C rather than the EmbeddedC++ stuff they went to.