Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Chris Garaffa <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:55:15 -0500
On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 01:06 AM, Jeff LaMarche wrote:
It would be relatively dumb to make it for internal use only. It
doesn't cost them much to make it available and they get a lot of
information and feedback about it for free, and they have a pool of
people learning a niche language and tool that would otherwise probably
(sadly) die. Without that, they'd have to train everybody they'd hire
because it would become a proprietary toolset. It would also piss off
those software companies that have made the jump to Cocoa, some of
which Apple can't afford to piss off (Hell, isn't Office X written in
Cocoa?)
Wait a second... Office X is written in Carbon, no? It doesn't work on
OS 9.x with CarbonLib because it ties in very tightly with Carbon... I
don't know the technical details off the top of my head (I can't find my
copy of MacWorld/MacAddict that explains it). Considering that Office
contains ~20 million lines of code, I'd say they used Carbon... even the
folks at the MacBU are human, and converting that much code between
Classic code and Cocoa would have been absolutely crazy...
Anyway, minor detail, but you did ask ;)
Chris
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