Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- Subject: Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:19:09 -0500
On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 04:22 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 01:04 PM, John H Moody wrote:
Sorry, but CoCoa isn't about you. It's about me. It's about every
Mac user
who has never cared to program. Why do you think Apple bundles the
Developer CD inside every OS X box? I've installed every OS since
6.5, and
I've never heard of GX or OpenDoc. Why? Because Apple didn't want me
to know
about it. They simply wanted me to keep on using Quark in my merry
little
utopia and leave the programming to you guys. CoCoa changes that, and
there's a gray CD in every box of OS X that proves it.
CoCoa IS attracting developers to the Mac, and THAT is Apple's goal.
Hear hear! It is really exciting to be able to get the Cocoa frameworks
and OS X dev tools basically for Free!
The depth and richness of the Cocoa frameworks is amazing. It's drawn
me over to developing Cocoa apps. And I have experience with Java,
REALBasic, Perl, Python, PHP and C++. All fine languages for their
purpose but none have the rich framework like Cocoa!
Not only should Apple be pushing Cocoa to people who wouldn't have
normally considered programming, they should be pushing it like MAD at
students (like me). Nobody in my university knows wtf Cocoa or
Objective-C is (granted it's a small university). Even the Smalltalk wiz
had never heard of it. I'm trying to evangelize when I can, but they
should have Apple on their case to get my classmates on iMacs
programming in Cocoa. I hope they're pushing it hard in high school,
cause they could really start a great new revolution in programming.
bg