Re: CamelBones
Re: CamelBones
- Subject: Re: CamelBones
- From: Bob Ippolito <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:06:58 -0400
On Apr 29, 2004, at 6:14 PM, John Stiles wrote:
On Apr 29, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Apr 29, 2004, at 5:01 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Apr 29, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
Are you familiar with Python?
I'm beginning to see why the language lists are segregated.
Why is it that every time Perl, Python, or Ruby are mentioned,
someone always chimes in that one of the others is better? Can't we
save that sort of thing for usenet?
If I had the time, I'd learn all three, and lisp, sather, and lua
too. The more options I have available, the better-equipped I am as
a developer. That's what CamelBones is about - it's not about
competing with some other language, it's about adding another
option.
Actually I'm quite familiar with Perl, and I've taken a good look at
CamelBones in the past (particularly when I was porting Frozen Bubble
to OS X). I'm not saying Python is better than Perl on every
account, but in this particular case with about 10 lines of
non-template Python code (8 of which are in my tutorial, and the
other two in my previous email) he could have something up and
running in a NSTableView... which is less work than he already did
writing the mock csv-reading code in his email.
In all of my Python experiences, I've found that the generated
application's minimum system requirements are my current OS. IOW, if I
install Python on my OS X 10.3 box and build apps with it, the apps do
not work in an pre-OS X 10.3 environment.
As such, I find it a bit hard to recommend for any serious work,
unless you don't mind running in OS X 10.2 forever. It's possible that
I'm doing something wrong, though.
(My experiences were generally related to rebuilding and modifying the
open-source BitTorrent client.)
You have the same problem if you link against anything in /System that
didn't exist in a previous version of OS X. There are several ways to
do it, you just didn't do the right research or ask in the right place
(hint: email@hidden).
-bob
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