Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Byron Sinor <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:35:11 -0800 (PST)
--- Ondra Cada <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 12:59 , Dennis De Mars
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wrote:
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Well I do know that there is an excellent reason for
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that (since you can
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call plain C from Cocoa, but not vice versa), but
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still it means one has
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to resort to quite ugly APIs for a number of things,
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which *COULD* be
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*EXTREMELY* nicely done in ObjC...
I agree completely. I am new to Cocoa and I've really
only been a serious programmer for a few years 2.5? I
have a good foundation in basics and had a strong
foundation in procedural programming methodologies.
But I'm a complete convert to Obj-C. I love the way it
works and its pretty easy to work with (still getting
the hang of retains and releases, though...).
My day job is purely Computer Admin type work, but IB
and PB (and a nice book by Aaron Hillegass) have
allowed to make real, useful programs! But I've had to
resort to C for such simple things as time accuracy
below a second and many graphicals structures are
C-Structs and not objects. (NSPoint, NSRect, etc...)
I would love it if everything were Cocoa-based, but
I'm told that the overhead is prohibitive for some
applications (like the aforementioned graphics
elements). Not sure if its truth or not, but I don't
have the ability to really judge for myself. So for
now, I put up with C when I have to, but I'd be
fantastically happy to see Cocoa expand.
-Byron
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