Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- Subject: Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- From: "Dennis C. De Mars" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 16:00:00 -0700
on 6/9/01 9:58 AM, Bob Sabiston at email@hidden wrote:
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are there any apps on my system now that were written in Cocoa? Like
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OmniWeb, is that cocoa? Itunes? Is iMovie written in Cocoa? Is the mail
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program? It would be reassurring to see some fully fleshed out working
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applications and know they were done with Cocoa before I invest a lot of
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time learning it. I have the beginner's mistrust in OOP, since, as the
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previous poster mentioned, in the end it all goes back to serial execution
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of instructions, more or less linear.
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Bob
I would like to add to the other responses to your query: if you are worried
about OOP, it is a standard programming methodology nowadays anyway. Not
only are many applications that come with OS X written with Cocoa, but most
of the remaining Carbon apps probably use an object oriented framework such
as PowerPlant. I would guess that a majority of applications written for
_any_ platform nowadays use object oriented methodology, or if not a
majority certainly a large number. In other words, it's not exactly an
untested methodology.
BTW, once of the Cocoa applications installed with OS X is TextEdit, and the
source code is actually provided as one of the examples with the Developer
Tools. So you can play around with TextEdit, get a feel for its
capabilities, and then actually look at the project to see what is involved
in constructing such an application with Cocoa.
- Dennis D.