[OT}Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
[OT}Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- Subject: [OT}Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- From: zauhar <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:56:01 -0400
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 09:29 AM, publiclook wrote:
When I started this post, I was hoping for a discussion of the
relative development styles and advantages for Qt vs. Cocoa given that
some people seemed willing to use exotic pre-processors, forego an IDE
completely, and program in C++ in PREFERENCE to using Cocoa even on
the Mac. I am trying to understand what it is about Cocoa that makes
it less approachable (for some) than Qt. In my limited experience
with Qt, it seems very unapproachable to me.
The key word in the original article is "used", as in "I am used to
C++", "I am used to Visual Basic".
These can be amplified as "... but I'm SO used to Visual C++ ...", ad
nauseum.
The word "used" can sometimes be a sign of mental laziness, and in
computing it often represents a lack of initiative to learn anything
that is too far removed from prior experience. To a certain extent I
can understand the attitude - from the way the author of the article in
question describes himself I suspect he does not have a lot of
experience, and is probably happy to generate GUIs that have a few
buttons. I suspect he is basically playing around.
I would suggest that most of the people on this list are trying to do
things miles above what that fellow is attempting, and are probably
much more sophisticated in outlook than even most commercial
developers. Most developers see their work as a job, not a calling or a
craft, and mainly want to get the job done quickly and with little
concern for aesthetics. In short they have little emotional investment
in their work, and I sense that most on this list have a very different
attitude, and should not waste a lot of time analyzing that guy's
psychology.
(All that said, I do understand the desire for cross-platform
development, at least for Linux, and I am hoping that GNUStep will fill
the bill...)
I'm shutting up right now!
Randy
Randy J. Zauhar, PhD
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Director, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
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