Re: Cocoa Newbie
Re: Cocoa Newbie
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Newbie
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:08:50 +0200
On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 07:20 , Erik M. Buck wrote:
No language is best suited to solving all problems. I just haven't
found any problem for which C++ is best suited in spite of being involved
with many projects including hundreds of thousands of lines of C++.
I had such a program in school, it was a one-year project for the final
exams. I had the idea for the software, designed it and wrote half the
code, all in C++, despite my good knowledge in ObjC. Why? 2 reasons:
1. Teachers like C++ (that didn't really matter, since the teacher couldn'
t read it anyways :)
2. It was an embedded system. I didn't even bother to try to install
GNUStep (foundation) on a 486DX50 with a 100MB hard disk and 32MB of RAM.
C++ translates directly into assembler with nearly no overhead (when you
don't use virtual functions). That's the way to go on embedded systems.
I even implemented some ObjC-stuff into C++, like reference counting and a
base class :-)
andy
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