Some FUD for the Newbies (Was: Visualizing Cocoa)
Some FUD for the Newbies (Was: Visualizing Cocoa)
- Subject: Some FUD for the Newbies (Was: Visualizing Cocoa)
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:41:32 -0700
Hello,
I apologize for the RANT in advance, I have some time in my hand.
So you want a 10 year old to be able to program for Cocoa. You probably
also want him to design the next microprocessor to dethrone Intel too.
For all other engineering discipline, it takes 5 years of work
experience and
then they have to pass a PE (Professional Engineering) exam before they
can
call themselves an Engineer. Why should Software Engineering be any
different.
The reason NeXTStep was so successful is because it attracted lot of
really great
people who did some amazing stuff. 80% of programmers have no clue,
they just
want to be paid for surfing the Web and should go find another career
(I think yahoo pays to surf the Web).
Now we have dumb it down for mac zealots because they don't want to
learn anything new. Remember when you did not like the Cocoa Finder and
how about the Dock (I don't want use stinking Windows dock). How about
the shelf.
Oh ya, you want a visual Cocoa. I guess IB is not visual enough for
you. May be you should
be asking for SJ to come up with a new computer that connects directly
to your brain.
So, what ever you visualize in your brain will immediately show in the
monitor. No need to learn
a stinking dead language with weird syntax that nobody really uses. No
need to learn to type.
No need for Speech Recognition. Heck, a toddler could use this.
Best of all, you can fire all the programmers.
Following question can usually determine whether you should be a
programmer or not:
Why do they teach math and science in schools if you are never going to
use it in your job?
If you don't know the answer, you need to find another job.
Thanks,
Rajnish
PS: I am sure Apple is not asking you to be a programmer just because
there is Developer CD with MacOSX