Re: FW: Objective C vs. Java
Re: FW: Objective C vs. Java
- Subject: Re: FW: Objective C vs. Java
- From: Thomas Hudson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:26:53 -0700
- Organization: Rarely
if (me.wish() == pad_resume)
me.learn("Java");
else if (me.wish() == write_fast_cocoa_apps)
[me learn @"Objective-C"];
else if (me.wish() == be_great_programmer)
switch (language)
{
case C:
grok(me,"C");
/* intentional fallthru */
case CPP:
me->grok("C++");
// intentional fallthru
case JAVA:
me.grok("Java");
// intentional fallthru
case OBJECTIVEC:
case SMALLTALK:
[me grok @"Objective-C"];
/* again */
case LISP:
(setq me (cons 'grok '(lisp scheme))
;; I don't get it, where's the recursion?
case PERL:
$#@%^&%^&*&&^*&
# I know this isn't valid Perl, but it looks like it could be.
case PYTHON:
me.do(action="grok", language="python")
break
case VISUALBASIC:
abort;
}
Tyler LaGrange wrote:
>
Also, Java is a much smarter approach if you would like to learn
>
something that can be applied to OTHER areas of computing. There are a
>
countless number of jobs out there in the market today that are looking
>
for Java Experience. There is a MUCH smaller number of Objective-C
>
coders being looked for.
With a little discipline one could learn Smalltalk at the same time one
learns Objective-C, since Objective-C was inspired by Smalltalk. If
you do the same search on Monster for Smalltalk programmers, you find
some demand. Of course if we only learned the most sought after thing
on job boards we'd probably all be writing visual basic, and poorly.
Tomy