Re: *****SPAM*****How to convince company I should switch to Cocoa
Re: *****SPAM*****How to convince company I should switch to Cocoa
- Subject: Re: *****SPAM*****How to convince company I should switch to Cocoa
- From: Izidor Jerebic <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:26:22 +0100
On Jan 17, 2004, at 6:48 AM, Larry Gerndt wrote:
MY boss is asking me to to justify my desire to rewrite our
Carbon/PowerPlant app in Cocoa. I've seen enough of Cocoa to know
that this
is probably the best move I can make. Right now I'm stuck with
PowerPlant
(the original), and it's now dead. So either I should port to
PowerPlant X
(which is a huge port because PowerPlant X is radically different from
the
original), or I spend that time delving into Cocoa. I believe the
Cocoa API
is richer by far than PowerPlant X could hope to be, though PowerPlant
X
does look excellent for anyone who wants to stay in the Carbon API.
It would sure help to know what is it that your application does. But I
guess that for almost all cases the following holds - just do it in
Cocoa! Your application automatically gets all the nice stuff - unicode
support, printing, document & text handling, services, and lots of
other goodies that come for free when using Cocoa. You can always wrap
your custom logic in ObjC ( or C++ - not recommended, but possible if
necessary) and use it as model in ModelViewController scheme. This
redesign will benefit your application even if you do not implement it
in Cocoa - better OO design always improves application (less bugs,
better maintainability, ...). Cocoa implementation will also benefit
you because you will sub-consciencely absorb a lot of best-practice
that is contained in Cocoa, simply by using Cocoa and allowing it to
guide your implementation.
In short - your application's quality and maintainability (it will
become much easier and faster to improve it in the future) will greatly
improve as a side effect of moving to Cocoa. This alone will probably
make it worthwhile....
izidor
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