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Re: Source code for debugging


  • Subject: Re: Source code for debugging
  • From: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:58:43 -0500


On Oct 4, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Mac Developer wrote:

As anyone who has used .Net knows, it's a nice programming environment with
good APIs.

Not exactly true. I've used .Net, don't care much for the programming environment and would describe the APIs as... adequate.

Here is one more thing to make me more likely to choose it for future
projects. Microsoft has announced that they'll be including source code for
.Net.


http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing
-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

Certainly an interesting choice. Although, if a bit full of conspiracy theory, I suspect that the post at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2191754,00.asp probably has a kernel of truth.



If source were available for Cocoa and QuickTime and various other APIs, I
can think of dozens of times over the past year where I wasted one or more
days due to poorly documented, buggy, or incomplete APIs from Apple.

Yes. And at the same time Apple would have given away it's "crown jewels" making them, for all intents and purposes mostly worthless.


If pursuing that idea has merit for you, however, I would encourage you to pursue it farther in an appropriate forum.

Scott
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