Re: AppKit source available as reference?
Re: AppKit source available as reference?
- Subject: Re: AppKit source available as reference?
- From: Bob Savage <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:49:41 -0700
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I should think a risk of learning from source is that
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you may rely on things that you shouldn't, making it more
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likely your code will break later.
That is really the whole issue. It has been stated over and again by Apple,
for example on page 18 of "Learning Cocoa", but it is also a basic precept
of Object Oriented programming. Objects are black boxes. The only thing you
can rely on is the interface.
If people are having such a hard time with this, maybe they should be
contacting the academics who dreamed this stuff up, and who are teaching the
next generation of programmers, to say that OO programming does not work as
advertised, and we must put an end to it. Then maybe the folks at Apple will
realize that they were foolish to take this OO stuff so seriously, and will
follow the true path of programming productivity: Opening the Source code
like everyone wants.
Bob (who didn't start out this cynical)