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Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #456 - 9 msgs
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Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #456 - 9 msgs


  • Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #456 - 9 msgs
  • From: "Erik J. Barzeski" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 08:21:50 -0500

Quitting Microsoft to go do Objective-C development somewhere, Dan? :) Or
are they allowing you to do some there...? Heh...


On 4/6/02 1:05am, "email@hidden"
<email@hidden> wrote:
>> I think the advantage is that the code is written for you to do this and it
>> happens seamlessly. Where with C you would have to write all the code
>> yourself. Doing this is really forcing a methodology. I am not sure how I
>> feel about this and need to give it more thought.
>
> Exactly. In C/C++, you could have objects that knew how to take an action
> based on a string to give yourself a dynamic environment. Objective-C makes
> this easy, and has a powerful framework based on it.
>
>> But again this is really the essence of C. Its power lies in its simplistic
>> low level small language. C does very little for you but it lets you do
>> anything. Because of its size it compiles to very efficient object code.
>
> And C++ is very efficient too. The dynamic nature of Objective C definitely
> comes with a performance price.
>
> Dan

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Kindest regards,
Erik J. Barzeski

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