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Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
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Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:36:37 +1000


On 23 May 2008, at 3:20 am, Andy Lee wrote:

That may be, but that is different from demanding that Apple "lower the barriers" by changing Cocoa itself to resemble those platforms.


I think many of the additions in Object-C 2.0 and the addition of garbage collection is *precisely* a case of changing Cocoa to resemble other platforms (i.e. Java). Personally I don't find any of the new features all that compelling, though they are no doubt worthwhile for many. Since veteran Cocoa programmers have managed fine without any of these for a long time, I can only deduce that these changes were added by Apple for the express purpose of lowering the barriers to entry for programmers coming from a Java or .NET background.

G.
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