Re: ObjC API != Cocoa (Re: Another controversial question)
Re: ObjC API != Cocoa (Re: Another controversial question)
- Subject: Re: ObjC API != Cocoa (Re: Another controversial question)
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:32:59 +0100
On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 09:09 am, Ondra Cada wrote:
(ii) BSD/posix and Carbon are compatibility Mac OS X APIs. They are
C/C++
based, and offer subsets of the OS functionality needed to maintain the
aforementioned compatibility with Mac OS 9- (Carbon) or unix (BSD/posix)
sources. If something over that is needed, Cocoa API can be used.
Wrong. BSD/posix is the really native API of Mac OS X if you look at
things one way, and Carbon is the really native API if you look at it
the other way. It's all really rather subjective.
-- Finlay