Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- Subject: Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- From: "Dr. Scott Steinman" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:31:03 -0600
I'm the author of one of the books on Prograph, so maybe I can shed some
light on the current status of Prograph and its relation to OS X.
First of all, Prograph shares many qualities with Cocoa and Objective-C.
It is object-oriented, dynamic, and has a rich framework. It also cuts
down development time tremendously. Some people work better with visual
languages and others work better with textual languages. It would be
nice to give those people who work better with visual languages an
option for programming OS X.
I've been negotiating for about a year with Pictorius Inc., the owners
of Prograph, to open the licensing of Prograph so that its source code
could be distributed either in an open source or "shared source" model.
A group of Prograph programmers is already working on Carbonizing the
existing Prograph libraries and frameworks and have been quite
successful. However, the IDE, interpreter and compiler are still
Classic-only.
I differ in opinion a bit with the other Prograph programmers concerning
the future direction of Prograph. They want Prograph to be Carbonized,
keeping it backward compatible with existing code and remaining
cross-platform. This, of course, is needed to allow them to continue to
work on their existing Prograph applications.
I would prefer to break away from the existing code base and meld
Prograph with Cocoa, making Prograph a visual tool for programming
Cocoa; that is, would act as an IDE and interpreter, and output
Objective-C source code files for compilation of finished applications.
I would also like to see the entire Prograph IDE itself rebuilt in Cocoa.
I'm not sure if Pictorius will ever complete the licensing plan or if we
really have the manpower to make it happen, but I can keep
dreaming. ;-) In the meantime, I'm committed to learning Cocoa!!
Dr. Scott Steinman
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