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Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
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Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.


  • Subject: Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
  • From: Michael Rothwell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:23:13 -0500

Objective-C is a nice language once you get used to it, and the learning curve is not steep. If you know both C and object-oriented programming principles, you should be doing well in a few days. Get the O'Reilly Objective-C Pocket Reference. Read up on "categories" and how messaging really works. Realize that there are no namespaces in Objective-C, beyond adding a prefix of your choosing to all of your class names. There ya go. Now it's just another framework to learn.

John Stiles typically recommends doing your "back end" coding in C++, and building a Cocoa/Objective-C/Objective-C++ GUI. That may actually be the best route for you, since you already know C++. You should still learn Objective-C and Cocoa, of course, because it'll make your GUIs better, and easier to create for you.

-M


On Mar 12, 2006, at 6:02 PM, cudrnak wrote:

Hello all,
I am looking to learn to write software for Mac OS X.

Can anyone suggest a good route for me?

-- Michael Rothwell email@hidden



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