Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
- Subject: Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
- From: John Pannell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:37:57 -0700
Hi Scott-
I'm confident that given a week with the objectionable-C syntax,
you'd become an old Obj-C mule :-) It really becomes natural as you
get used to it. Your mind will turn this:
myObject->doSomethingWith(myArgument);
to this:
[myObject doSomethingWith:myArgument];
automatically in a day. Of course, there's more to the syntax than
that, but you get the idea - immerse yourself for a while and it will
become natural very quickly. Additionally, XCode/Cocoa/Obj-C seems
more future-proof than CW/PowerPlant or Cocoa/Java (which is
stagnating, IIRC).
A search on this topic will reveal many who say there is a good
"impedance matching" between the Cocoa Frameworks and the Obj-C
language. This has certainly been my experience, but I have little
other experience to compare to.
There you have it, one vote for Cocoa/Obj-C for an old C++ mule :-)
John
On Mar 12, 2006, at 4:02 PM, cudrnak wrote:
Hello all,
I am looking to learn to write software for Mac OS X. I would like
some advice and guidance on what framework to run with. Way back in
1991-3, I wrote Mac code in MacApp using MPW. I have since been
writing object-oriented telecom code for UNIX/POSIX in C++. I've
gone through the tutorials for Xcode 1.5 with Carbon and cocoa/
objC. I can see that the cocoa framework saves a lot of coding
over Carbon, which looks more like the old toolbox stuff. I really
don't want to go down rant road, but I am put off by the
objectionable-C syntax because, to my C/C++ trained eyes, many
things seems like odd ways to define things.
Can anyone suggest a good route for me? Would I have a shorter
learning curve with cocoa/Java? Would CodeWarrior/PowerPlant be a
better choice because of my C/C++ background? Personal experience
or even just pointers to existing web pages would be great.
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