Re: Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects (OT left turn)
Re: Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects (OT left turn)
- Subject: Re: Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects (OT left turn)
- From: Greg Finnegan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:55:59 -0700
On 15-Jun-09, at 11:33 PM, David LaBer wrote:
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.
I so have to jump in here, having just started retiring a suite of native Mac applications that I started writing in 1988 using Object Pascal (since moved to C++) and MacApp (the original Apple framework :-).
Unfortunately, it is "old, dull, and crotchety", but certainly far exceeded anyone's expectation of longevity and a testimony to the resilience of the framework that it could withstand 21 years of 24x7 mission critical use and continuous development and improvement.
Fortunately, it is being replaced in a large part with WebObjects.
Greg Finnegan |
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