Re: FYI: NSKeyedArchiver success
Re: FYI: NSKeyedArchiver success
- Subject: Re: FYI: NSKeyedArchiver success
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:54:10 +0200
Ricky,
On 7.4.2006, at 0:29, Ricky Sharp wrote:
Kudos to the Cocoa team for making this an incredibly easy
transition! This is also great for customers that will be moving
data files from PowerPC Macs to Intel Macs. Seamless upgrade!
Ahem... kudos indeed for they succeeded not to break an age-old
functionality. You know, ten years ago it used to be very common to
share both data and code (Universal Binaries being no modern
invention either) betwixt Motorola 68040 based systems, Intel x68
based systems, Sun SPARC based systems, and HP PA-RISC based ones,
without a glitch. Not speaking of the fact you used to be able to
build the project not only for any of those four architectures, but
*also* into a Windoze executable. And, which I lack most bitterly of
all, you used to be able to share directly the Obj-C engine code
betwixt desktop and Web applications.
And, as an added bonus, you could use isKindOfClass: to distinguish
immutable arrays from mutable ones :)
(OTOH, I would rather not return to bindingless programming, even
with the buggy NSTreeController -- in ohter words, to be fair, though
many great things were broken, many other great things came.)
Sorry for an off-topic, but I could not resist...
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Ondra Čada
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