Re: troubling article
Re: troubling article
- Subject: Re: troubling article
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:40:10 -0500
I really don't know what a "constructive response" would be. The gist
of the article is, "I don't like Cocoa." Okay. I don't have a problem
with that. I don't agree with it, but I really don't see a way to argue
with it, either.
You know, yesterday I read a thread on MetaFilter that left me steaming
mad. It's not important which one it was; the point is that it really
got under my skin to see a bunch of otherwise intelligent people saying
things that were so stupid as to be beyond understanding.
What I learned from that is that sometimes it's important to just put
the computer to sleep and walk away.
I'm applying that lesson here.
That said, Andy Satori's message has some good stuff in it. Myself, I
would not like tool tips to start popping up all over my screen. But I
would appreciate a feature of Project Builder that watches what I type
and gives me contextual reference information in another pane of the
window. As he said, if I type "[NSString " it'd be neat to see a quick
API reference of the class methods of NSString appear, not in an
obtrusive way but simply in another pane. But pop-up tool-tips getting
in my way? No, thank you. I'd rather slog through the documentation.
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 09:33 PM, Chris Meyer wrote:
Here's a disturbing, but interesting, article that is of interest to
the Cocoa developer community (link at the bottom).
Instead of flame-type responses on this list (or to the article's
author), let's try to keep any responses constructive. It would be
interesting to hear developers having similar experiences to the
article's author, developers with cross platform development
experience, and other developers offering constructive (not reactive)
responses, if any.
Some of the points this guy makes are clearly off the mark, while
others are valid criticism and as a community it would be nice to
understand what those issues are and how to address them since it
benefits everyone on this mailing list to have more developers using
and happy with Cocoa, Project Builder, and the Mac in general.
Again, think constructive response...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/11Jun2003_datacol89.html
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