Re: Java or Objective-C for Cocoa?
Re: Java or Objective-C for Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: Java or Objective-C for Cocoa?
- From: Alex Perez <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:10:07 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Patrick Machielse wrote:
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op 02-04-2004 13:50 schreef Ondra Cada
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> On Friday, Apr 2, 2004, at 12:43 Europe/Prague, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
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>> I have heard that Objective-C might be the better choice for Cocoa,
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>> especially for heavy graphical stuff. Is there really a big difference?
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> ObjC is *much* better language for just plain anything, thanks to a
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> plethora of reasons stated nauseatingly often. For starters, let's say
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> "proper class support", "categories", "polymorphism", "message
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> forwarding", or "no garbage collector". Just try to scan archives.
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>From the above list, strike "proper class support", "polymorphism", and "no
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garbage collector". Obj-C doesn't even have proper class variables,
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polymorhism isn't a unique selling point of Obj-C, and who wouldn't like to
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have an objective-C garbage collector?
Lots of people don't feel the need to have their hand held. That being
said, there *IS* a garbage collector for Objective-C, just not for the
APple ObjC runtime. The boehm-gc ObjC GC works only with the GNU
Objective-C runtime, but I suppose someone might be able to port that if
they really wanted to. Look at GCC CVS.
Cheers,
Alex Perez
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