Re: troubling article
Re: troubling article
- Subject: Re: troubling article
- From: Jay Vaughan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:21:17 +0200
wrt:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/11Jun2003_datacol89.html
He sat down thinking that he could download 300MB (he complains
about its size? what???), grab a "Cocoa for Dummies" book and be
off writing something good without even understanding the nuances of
the Macintosh approach to user experience.
That disqualified him as any authority for me right off the bat.
I think the point (which seems lost in the neverending Conflict of
Dogma so many programmers seem unable to resolve these days in their
Quests for Authority) he is trying to make is that tools *DO* exist to
make it really easy for relatively dilettante programmers to whip
together an application, but Apple isn't promoting/including them,
and that from a hack-something-together-on-my-computer perspective
which many begininning/experimental programmers have, adding the complex
abstractions of the "MVC" 'science' to the equation gets in the way,
to no apparent gain.
"In a typical development environment these days you drop stuff onto a
blank window, assign some events, add some code and compile."
That's not *my* 'typical' development environment. (vi + make, if
you want to know.) That's a typical "RAD" environment.
This doesn't mean he's an 'authority' worth of respect, or not.
His reflections simply imply that development tools have not gotten simpler
for casual/non-professional developers, they have gotten more complicated,
and the ones which Apple chooses to make available for free - while
very sophisticated - don't meet the needs of the casual hacker. Or
at least, that's the apparency (its not true, I know, I find OSX
development smooth and buttery, personally).
If anything, this represents a market opportunity ...
I'm going to email him personally, anyway, and recommend that for his
OSX hacking needs he check out RealBasic. I think its a little more
appropriate than sending him an inflamed opinion on his nature of being...
--
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Jay Vaughan
r&d>>music:technology:synthesizers - www.access-music.de/
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