Re: Docs, questions and stuff
Re: Docs, questions and stuff
- Subject: Re: Docs, questions and stuff
- From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:17:27 -0700
On 8/25/01 7:58 PM, "Jonathan Hendry" <email@hidden> wrote:
About ObjC.pdf
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No, of course it doesn't introduce 'more than a tiny subset of Cocoa'.
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Why do you think it should? It's about Objective-C, not Cocoa. You want
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Cocoa, use a different book. A book about Cocoa.
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And no, it doesn't teach programming. If it were full of such
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basic material, it would lose value to people who do know
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programming to some extent.
No, it's fine. If it didn't exist, someone would have to write it. And it
certainly is complete enough for those to whom it is addressed. It's just
not addressed to everybody.
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Actually, no, Java would be fine. I just really think C++ would be
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the wrong track, and too much work by half.
I'm really happy to hear you say that. I can't see that there is that much
to choose between them but what the heck.
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