• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?


  • Subject: Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:27:31 +0100

On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 03:13 , Dave Sopchak wrote:

Could someone explain to me the reasoning behind killing the Obj-C support? I've really gotten the hang of this language in the past year and love it...why would they remove support for it?

Supposedly for a better portability, which is one big roaring BS, with the plethora of environments GCC happily works in.

I suspect the real reason was that someone got infatuated by the Java salestalk (or perhaps presumed customers are, to the point they would buy rather a Jaba-based crap than an ObjC-based miracle: that one might, quite sadly, be even a very reasonable market estimation :((().

Triple alas for us programmers though: there's not *one* thing Java can do and ObjC can't (well, not literally, but they all can be very easily worked around). OTOH, there is a number of things which are child's play in ObjC whilst Java has not the slightest hope of doing anything remotely similar -- say, categories or message forwarding.
---
Ondra Cada
OCSoftware: email@hidden http://www.ocs.cz
private email@hidden http://www.ocs.cz/oc
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
  • Follow-Ups:
    • Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?
      • From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
References: 
 >Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it? (From: Dave Sopchak <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?
  • Next by Date: Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?
  • Previous by thread: Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?
  • Next by thread: Re: OT: Web Objects -- Anybody using it?
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread