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Re: The Problems with NSController
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Re: The Problems with NSController


  • Subject: Re: The Problems with NSController
  • From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:45:36 -0500

On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:

On Oct 26, 2003, at 11:18 AM, Francisco J. Bido wrote:
Experience programmers don't care about writing a few lines of extra code, if it means more control.

Experienced programmers know that every line of code is an opportunity for more bugs, and prefer to minimize the amount of unnecessary code to accomplish a particular task.

NSController is very useful for this.

I'm sorry but that is specious, since writing less code is an attribute of OOP itself, if you use it right. NSController is just another class, which is either written well or written poorly. If the savings in NSController are so magical, I suspect that any good Cocoa developer has already abstracted similar functionality. Apple does not have a monopoly on software engineering principles, whether they built the OS or no.

What you are really saying is that it saves lazy programmers the work of doing their own software engineering. Just think how much coding I would not have to do if I were not a programmer at all!

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Brent Gulanowski email@hidden
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