Re: Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects
Re: Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects
- Subject: Re: Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:33:00 -0400
On 15-Jun-09, at 10:56 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:
On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:34 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
Yeah, if you are prone to anxiety this might not be the technology
for you!
Ha! Well put!
You know what's funny though - for all the macinations (heh) that
people suspect, the NeXT based technologies have had longer lives
than anything else I've ever used.
Objective-C? Was using it in 1990. What other languages were in
use then?? C, Basic, PASCAL - you know, they're really big now. I
built a commodity trading system in Objective-C starting in 1991...
It's still being sold today.
WebObjects - lets see - 1996, right? What other object oriented web
application server technologies were around in 1996? :)
People have been predicting the death of WebObjects for as long as I
can remember - it's genuinely laughable now!
Technology in general doesn't age well. So "mature" is often
interpreted a synonym for "old, dull, and crotchety, and just waiting
for something young and sparkly to eat it's lunch".
It's a testament to WebObjects usefulness and design that it continues
to prove naysayers wrong about it's survival.
It may also say something about the creators and users of Next
inspired technology, we seem to be pretty tenacious and not likely to
abandon our chosen tools without a damn good reason. i.e: Things would
be a lot different if the Carbon faction at Apple had come out on top
of the power struggle that occurred after the Next acquisition.
;david
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