Re: Cocoa approachable by non-programmers ?
Re: Cocoa approachable by non-programmers ?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa approachable by non-programmers ?
- From: Martin Häcker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:30:03 +0100
At 21:45 Uhr -0500 23.02.2003, publiclook wrote:
I have noticed a lot of questions that are not so much about Cocoa
as about programming in general. I also notice a lot of questions
that are really C questions rather than Cocoa questions.
Is this a result of the fact that Cocoa is seen as approachable by
non-programmers or is it the result of a culture shift in
programming / education ?
I'd say it's a shift away from low level programming (and that's not
always good) but it is most of the time.
I think it would go a long way for Cocoa to integrate an optional
Garbage Collector (look at GnuStep how to do it) because it would
allow it to view Cocoa from a much higher point of view. (optionally
that is)
In my view exactly this is the biggest advantage of Obj-C and Cocoa
over any other Language/Framework I know till today, it is so
flexible that you can either view it as low-level as you like, but on
the other hand are able to climb up to high-levels you won't ever
reach with other languages/frameworks. And in this regard even Java
falls short sometimes (though not at the garbage collector... ).
cu Martin
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