Re: how is C often used in Cocoa, if at all?
Re: how is C often used in Cocoa, if at all?
- Subject: Re: how is C often used in Cocoa, if at all?
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:09:30 -0500
On 2/11/03 at 2:16 PM, Marc Weil <email@hidden> wrote:
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In Cocoa itself, C really doesn't play that big of a role. ObjC is
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completely Object Oriented, so the closest related language is C++, not C
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(in terms of that kind of language, not including Smalltalk).
I don't really agree that Objective-C and C++ are that closely related.
Objective-C is C with a fairly thin layer over top to support a Smalltalkesque
dynamic OO methodology. C++ is an object-supporting language heavily based on,
but not completely compatible with, C. Put another way, an Obj-C compiler _will_
compile C code, but a C++ compiler may legitimately not.
For the original poster, you have to understand the distinction between C the
language and C the standard library. If you're using Objective-C you are using C
the language. If you're using Cocoa, large chunks of the C standard library
become almost superfluous if you're not especially concerned about portability.
If you _are_ worried about portability you're probably going to end up doing
most or all of your back end in C with Cocoa restricted to the interaction
between that engine and the user and machine.
G
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