Re: Objective C language [NEWBEE QUESTIONS]
Re: Objective C language [NEWBEE QUESTIONS]
- Subject: Re: Objective C language [NEWBEE QUESTIONS]
- From: James Duncan Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:33:54 -0800
On Jan 30, 2004, at 04:08, Alexander F. Hartner wrote:
I have been playing with objective C for some time now, but the number
of questions seem to increase as I learn more about the language. My
background lies in Java development so I am familiar with OO.
Others have answers your points, but I want to add a meta comment. The
style of Object-Orientation exhibited by Java is quite different from
the style of OO exhibited by Objective-C. In may places, they are
similar enough to make a transition of concepts, and even to co-exist
to a remarkable degree when you use them together.
But, Objective-C is a very much more dynamic environment than Java is.
And because of this, you really gotta be careful of trying to code ObjC
like you would code Java. For the first 6 months I was hacking ObjC, I
tried to push it into the Java mindset. After all, I'd been working in
Java for many moons.
Once I let go of that and let it be what it was and started exploiting
the strengths of ObjC, life was better.
duncan
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.