Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- Subject: Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- From: Steve Schacht <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 19:42:12 -0700
Hi Brian, thanks for the reply.
On 1/3/02 5:41 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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When I joined this list about eight months ago I, too, raved about the
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need for a graphical programming tool of some sort, having recently given
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up on Prograph due to the total lack of commitment to OS X on the part of
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the owner of the software. There were a few guys around trying to do a
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port of some sort, but after talking with two of them it was plain that
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the effort was an abortion waiting to happen.
Bummer. That's not what I wanted to hear. :-/
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My idea was to go three dimensional, keeping as much of Cocoa as possible.
3D, now that's interesting...
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I also jumped right in, and wish the hell I had not! The flaming I put
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up with went way beyond flicking a Bic--more like calling in a Napalm
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strike on your own position.
Yikes! *donning flame retardant suit*
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My advice is to step
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wisely around here, or you might find yourself anguishing over being
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banned from certain sites like I have.
Thanks for the words of caution.
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Oh, you forgot to mention that the
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Prograph documentation is also quite good,
Yes, I agree. The OOP primer/tutorial that came with the product when it
was first released on the Mac was very good also. It got me up and running
in no time.
As for Cocoa, I've just been slogging through the Obj-C manual and some
tutorials. Not sure what I'll wind up doing yet.
Thanks again,
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Steve Schacht
email@hidden