Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- Subject: Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- From: Thomas Hudson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:06:07 -0800
I hear english is about to be preempted by these new fangled
hieroglyphics.
Unless the Chinese ideograms take over first.
All kidding aside, language (which probably has a twenty thousand year
head start), and which computer languages are a subset of, is still
better
for conveying massive complexity. Yes, a picture is worth a thousand
words,
but are a thousand pictures worth a million words. How many cartoon
pictures
will it take to convey "Finnegans Wake?"
It may be good for small RAD, but so far, the complexity of large
applications
has always proven many frameworks or abstractions to be a hindrance
rather than
a help, making the first eighty percent of work easier, and the last
twenty percent
harder. The last twenty I'm more interested in compressing.
Having spent too many years on commercial software development using C++,
I honestly believe the steep learning curve of Objective-C and
Next^h^h^h^h
Cocoa, is worth every effort. Believe me, easy in the beginning will
lead to a life
of toil and hardship. Easy in the end is what you're looking for. Kind
of like
playing guitar, if you want effortless blistering leads, start with
finger blisters.
Tomy