Re: troubling article
Re: troubling article
- Subject: Re: troubling article
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:37:10 -0400
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 10:33 PM, Chris Meyer wrote:
Here's a disturbing, but interesting, article that is of interest to
the Cocoa developer community (link at the bottom).
[snip]
http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/11Jun2003_datacol89.html
I think the irony about the article is that the person is clearly not
interested in being a self-sufficient, self-respecting developer with a
solid understanding of his development tools (including languages). He
wants it easy, to have his hand held, and to follow instructions to the
letter. He probably produces programs identical to those of a million
other such people, which are probably available in the public domain
already in some form or other. Some people are just stoopid lusers,
after all.
There is an auto-complete addition for Project Builder. Darned if I
know what I did with my copy or who made it. Hopefully someone will
remember it and reply. If that can be done pretty easily by an indie
dev, no reason for Apple not to do it too. I have been learning Cocoa
development for the last couple of years, and I messed around with the
Toolbox in ages past, and I have to say that I'm annoyed at Apple's
slow progress in making its tools more automated, but I think it's like
complaining about no cherry on the sundae. And, if you know Cocoa at
all, you know that the semantics of Cocoa naming is so consistent that
it becomes very easy to remember the names of classes, methods and
constants. It's many orders of magnitude easier than Java.
I guess I need to try out some Windows tools for a laugh, but I think
I'm quite Cocoa-fied. How people can live without categories,
delegation, and the responder chain, I have no idea.
That said, Apple could start by making a lot more templates than the
few included. I mean, a LOT more. They should also publish a kick-ass
plug-in SDK for Project Builder. And they could solve very dumb
problems like this:
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 09:34 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 03-06-10 9:03 PM, Marc Weil at email@hidden wrote:
But now whenever I run the app, dyld complains that it can't find the
framework.
There are a trillion little settings you have to get right, and they're
scattered all over a dozen different dialogs and panes and panels. An
official checklist would be really great.
So, how about ONE little setting, instead of a litany of them,
especially if they are all set the same every time?
For every hard working person there are a hundred who don't want to
think or work hard, and, honestly, Apple is being foolishly snobbish if
they say they don't want those people to buy their computers or develop
software for their platform. But that's Apple's decision. I can learn
to make my own automation tools, instead of bitching about it. All it
is is software, and we're software developers, aren't we? I doubt the
guy who wrote the article really is one.
Brent Gulanowski
--
Ten thousand years ago, the state of the art was a goat. -- Cory
Doctorow
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