RE: Cocoa newbie frustration
RE: Cocoa newbie frustration
- Subject: RE: Cocoa newbie frustration
- From: Brian Hook <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 11:14:48 -0700
- Organization: Pyrogon, Inc.
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dynamic binding,
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since it seems to me to allow imprecise thinking (not to mention a
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runtime penalty), and might be avoidable with a more disciplined
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approach to software design. Then again, maybe there's a less anal
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philosophical approach to software engineering that I need to explore!
It's two different philosophies: "C (and Obj-C) is about telling the
compiler what to do. C++ is about telling the programmer what to do."
That's paraphrased from a friend of a friend.
If you strongly feel that static type-checking is extremely important
and that a very rigid way of defining access to variables and methods is
required, then C++ is probably a more appropriate language. If you're
more comfortable with keeping that discipline to yourself and not
encumbering the language with it, then Obj-C is much better IMO.
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My other question is: is it likely, or even possible, that there will
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eventually be a C++ alternative to the Cocoa/ObjC programming
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environment for OS X?
I really, really hope not.
Brian