Re: [OT] Re: EOF undead?
Re: [OT] Re: EOF undead?
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: EOF undead?
- From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:41:52 +0100
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 01:37 pm, publiclook wrote:
Programming style and the relative styles and best practices between
Cocoa and alternatives are definitely on-topic for a technical Cocoa
forum like this one (IMHO). I have always found that discussions
about _why_ something is or isn't a good practice are more valuable
than unexplained assertions.
[snip]
Programming style is on-topic as long as it does not become a flame war
(which it did) and as long as it covers relevant (i.e. Cocoa-related)
material; for example, selector naming might be a useful Cocoa-related
discussion in that area. Generic C style issues are arguably relevant,
but they are both widely written-about and divisive in nature, so
perhaps this is not the best place to discuss them, especially if they
swamp the Cocoa-related traffic (like the recent thread did).
As for the other threads, *yes*, it is interesting to talk about why Qt
may or may not be "better" in some sense than Cocoa, or about whether
or not some article in the Bangkok Post is barking up the wrong tree.
But they are not about Cocoa *development* and are therefore off-topic.
Similarly for the WWDC NDAs, and for the general discussion of whether
dynamic or static typing is best.
I for one do not mind *some* relevant but off-topic traffic... indeed,
it sometimes contains information that *I* find useful; I just think
there's too much at the moment. (It's the volume that bothers me more
than anything else.)
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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