Re: All these newbie questions that are answered by documentation
Re: All these newbie questions that are answered by documentation
- Subject: Re: All these newbie questions that are answered by documentation
- From: James DiPalma <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:44:38 -0800
On Saturday, November 10, 2001, at 09:34 AM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
Of course, but it took me a couple of weeks to notice that - and to
understand what "conforms to" et al. mean.
Hence my complaint that people are not bothering to learn Objective-C
Erik, what you don't understand is that its the DOCUMENTATIONS fault for
making it super secret that Cocoa and Objective-C are actually object
oriented languages that benefit from their use of inheritance. If the
documentation were better, newbies would be able to pick up on this
subtle benefit of Cocoa in maybe only a few days. Unless a majority of
them can't learn things by reading; then Objective-C for dummies isn't
going to help either.
Newbies: take some responsibility. If you continue to insult Apple and
Erik because the documentation is so poor and Erik's patience is thin,
but then state that it should takes weeks to figure out that inherited
behavior is important, and it takes weeks to figure out what the super
classes are. Given the blatant lines at the top of every object's doc, I
think its irresponsible to blame Apple's doc.
-jim