Fwd: If Object-C is "the" language, then why is no one using it?
Fwd: If Object-C is "the" language, then why is no one using it?
- Subject: Fwd: If Object-C is "the" language, then why is no one using it?
- From: Niels Peter Strandberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:08:20 +0100
Begin forwarded message:
From: Niels Peter Strandberg <email@hidden>
Date: sxn nov 17, 2002 13:07:30 Europe/Copenhagen
To: David Remahl <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: If Object-C is "the" language, then why is no one using
it?
On sxndag, nov 17, 2002, at 12:27 Europe/Copenhagen, David Remahl
wrote:
You also ask why noone is using the language if it is so great. Well,
the
Mac is so great, and still only has about 5% of the users.
Yes, you got me! I love my Mac, but if it haven't been for Mac OS X, I
would have been long gone! Yes I'm one of the 5% that is still hanging
on to my Mac, but only time will tell.
If I'm already stupid enough to be one of the 5%, then I'm already
stupid enough to start learning cocoa!
Sure, it would be nice if Apple made Cocoa for Windows, but it isn't
essential to Objective-C. Remember - ObjC is also all that is C, so
all C
libraries are available to us.
Tell that to Adobe, Quark etc.
Java's success depends a whole lot more on
the adaption it gets in the developer community, since it can't use
compiled
C libraries.
Java's success does not depend on anything, it is already a success!
If Apple is only 5% of the market, then it is bad business to make it
hard(er) for win, unix developer to port apps to the mac, by requiring
them to use Objec-C if they want to use the cocoa framework.
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