Re: Parameter lists
Re: Parameter lists
- Subject: Re: Parameter lists
- From: John MacMullin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:47:48 -0700
Many moons ago, 1975, I started programming on an IBM 360/30 using
cards for input. Later, panvalet came along as a revolution in
development work, the first of many early IT wonders. I worked on
DG's, IBM 360 and 370, Sys 34, in a number of environments for Andersen
Consulting over a 10 year period. One project I worked on in the early
1980's was a DEC processor that had AT&T's new Unix operating system on
it.
Through those experiences, it appears to me that one of the factors of
successful manufacturers over the years is listening to user input. DG
for instance had numerous opportunities to expand but chose to remain a
closed system (though in my opinion they had an excellent system),
despite user input.
In any event, I left Andersen Consulting in late 1984 and started my
own consulting practice. Because of its user interface, I bought an
Apple in 1985 and a short time later became an Apple developer under
MPW. For a variety a reasons, I left the IT world and went to practice
law and have for 13 years or so. However, I have never given up IT
consulting nor have I given up programming over the years as both hobby
and to support the legal business. I have been a customer of Apple's
unwavering since 1985 yet have always had a welcome opportunity to
sound off to them about what I thought was right or wrong. While for
the most part, Apple has done its thing with my support but not 100%.
For what its worth, I have three apple machines now including the first
one that I bought in 1985, which still works.
With that reflection let us turn to the merits of my comment, which
again, was not intended to insult Apple or anyone else. My original
code came from the Objective C Pocket Reference by Duncan and and the C
Programming Language by K and R. Placing multiple parameters in a
function (or method) separated by commas is the ordinary c approach.
Others on the cocoa list, and in the Apple doc, had stated that support
for the ordinary c language is part of Cocoa. Accordingly, it just
seems to me that this approach should be supported in Cocoa.
I would be happy to continue the interchange.
John
On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 12:36 PM, j o a r wrote:
You really think that Apple, and all other Cocoa developers, are doing
things wrong, and you are right? Nice going...
j o a r
On 2003-11-07, at 18.34, John MacMullin wrote:
It would seem that cocoa is not following standard c, or objective-c,
conventions for multiple parameters. I believe that Apple should.
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