Re: WTF? How can this work?
Re: WTF? How can this work?
- Subject: Re: WTF? How can this work?
- From: Carlos Weber <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 10:29:08 -1000
On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 10:05 , Erik M. Buck wrote:
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We got something very
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valuable for the cost.
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Remind me what new features were added to Foundation to justify the
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changes.
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Cocoa is arguably the finest set of frameworks ever designed. I thank
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and
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congratulate the authors. If nothing else, Cocoa is a great teaching
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example to be emulated. Now, why degrade the implementation ?
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Erik, my perspective on this is very different from yours, since I
wasn't a NeXT developer, but a Mac person who is now in the process of
trying to become a Cocoa person. The last thing I want to do is start an
argument, or evince any disrespect for your point of view. Indeed,
without the wisdom and experience of you and others who have been
working with Cocoa for all those years, people like me would never have
a chance to get beyond square one!
Having said that, here's my one-sentence answer to your question: the
"something valuable for the cost" you are getting this time around is
the chance to develop for an audience that is several orders of
magnitude greater than was the audience for OpenStep development efforts!
By the way, I too think OS X is way slow, and am impatient for it to get
faster. The difference is, I guess, that I am for the moment willing to
cut Apple some slack in recognition of the effort it took to bring the
NeXT legacy to my wife's iMac, and get it to the point where it runs
like something she can recognize as the Mac OS she is familiar with.
Anyway, sincerely, thank you for all your contributions to this list!