Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #2340 - 15 msgs
Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #2340 - 15 msgs
- Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #2340 - 15 msgs
- From: Greg Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:06:59 -0400
On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 03:13 AM, Jeff Disher wrote:
Why does everyone insist on polluting the Objective-C language so much?
...
The problem is that people want Obj-C to be C++.
First, please note that it's not "everyone" that wants to do things
like this; it's a relative minority. And you started to work toward the
answer yourself: familiarity. You've got a fairly large population
rapidly being exposed to something new. Some of them are going to miss
things that they've become used to elsewhere, not always taking the
time to see whether the thing they missed actually adds value in the
new context. It's happened every time I've seen or been part of a mass
immigration like what we're experiencing now.
I remember being downright dumbfounded over the number of people that
came to BeOS - in the second wave of developers - looking for an
alternative to Windows and then started complaining about how different
it was from Windows.
G
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