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Re: ObjC: old and new styles?
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Re: ObjC: old and new styles?


  • Subject: Re: ObjC: old and new styles?
  • From: Ricardo Strausz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:02:21 -0500

On lunes, mayo 26, 2003, at 14:31 America/Mexico_City, Anjo Krank wrote:

Am Montag, 26.05.03 um 20:40 Uhr schrieb Chris Hanson:

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 02:12 PM, Ricardo Strausz wrote:
In earlier versions of OSX (then called Rapsody) there was an atempt to introduce a new sintaxix to ObjC, which looks closer to Java...
Does any one knows what happend with such an atempt?

Apple rightly decided that this didn't make any sense to spend their precious development resources on. Anybody who refuses to use Objective-C because of the syntax probably also has bigger problems with the language, of which the syntax is only the first level.


Personally, while I have my wish-list (like everyone else) I'd be very happy if Apple took an extremely conservative approach to changing the Objective-C language. It's an exceptionally nice language as it is right now, and I don't want to see it change for the worse.

I agree wholeheartedly.

In addition, there are bindings to Cocoa for Java, Perl, Python, AppleScript, JavaScript and whatnot, so you should certainly be able to write programs in the syntax your prefer (someone might even come up with a binding for the GNU lisp dialect that is used in GNUStep).


You may be miss undestand me; I had been developing in ObjC since NeXT 2.x (long ago) and I love it.
I was just wandering becouse on those times, when OSX was just a dream, I wrote some libraries playing with the new resources (in particular using the new sintaxis). So it would be nice just to bring them, compile and run... but I think I will have to rewrite them all from skratch.


On the other hand, I am not so sure if having a compiled Java-style lenguage will be a waste of time; that may bring more developers to the unsupported Cocoa/EO development, the best from both worlds!



Dino
http://homepage.mac.com/strausz
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