Re: PICT control problems [SOLVED]
Re: PICT control problems [SOLVED]
- Subject: Re: PICT control problems [SOLVED]
- From: Cameron Hayne <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:03:42 -0400
On 24-Jun-06, at 10:45 AM, John Lunt wrote:
I started with Z80 assembler many years ago, and later vowed never
to learn anything less general than C when the Z80 turned out to be
dead-end
I think that attitude is a mistake. In this business you will always
be needing to learn new things. You should be prepared to learn
things that will pay back the learning effort within the expected
life of the project.
And as others have pointed out already, what you will spend the most
time on when learning to do Mac application programming is learning
the frameworks. E.g. say that it will take you 100 units of effort to
get up to speed with the Carbon framework. It will then perhaps take
the same 100 units of effort to get up to speed with Cocoa - but only
10 of those units are for learning Objective-C and the remaining 90
are for the Cocoa frameworks. And many would say that the number for
learning Cocoa should be more like 50 - giving you a net gain. All
numbers completely made up. Your mileage may vary, etc.
Note too, that most Cocoa programmers don't need to learn how to deal
with exceptions - unlike with C++, exceptions occur only in
relatively advanced and unusual cases. I.e. you can ignore them for
the moment, maybe for the decade!
--
Cameron Hayne
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