Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- Subject: Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- From: Jeffrey Oleander <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:24:04 -0800 (PST)
> Turtle Creek Software <email@hidden>
wrote:
> Meanwhile, in that same time period, we've faced
> five big changes-- Think C to CW, 68K to PPC,
> 9 to X, CW to XCode and PPC to Intel.
Don't forget the OpenDoc side-show, and Pascal to C to C++
to Objective-C.
And then I suppose some of us were also making other
transitions over the last 20-30 years: Kronos to NOS to
NOS/VE or AOS/VS or VAX/VMS or CMS to AT&T UNIX or BSD or
Irix or Solaris or AIX or Linux, HTML to Perl and PHP and
Python and XML... Modify to CSV or Subversion...
hierarchical DBMSs to relational, RIM to rBase to MySQL or
PostgreSQL... CASE tools... 60-bit words to 64-bit words to
32-bit words to 64-bit words again...
If I had one big gripe at the field at large it's that I
haven't had a chance to wrap my mind around any technology
for the last, oh 15, years, and really truly thoroughly
absorb it before being redirected to something else that
takes months of redesign and rewriting to get back to about
where we were before the change. And I put a lot of the
fault for that on the documentation style being too
atomistic and not including enough context, and employer
unwillingness to invest in classes. Every time I read
another X doc, it refers me to at least 3-4 others, none of
which give a complete story for how these pieces fit
together into something useful. Hillegass's book is OK...
as far as it goes, but that's not terribly far.
What Apple could do, though, would be to continue to clean
up the rough edges on the tools. Make one big, integrated
doc that really covers Xcode, the compiler, the linkers,
copy phase, scripts, installation packaging... in a way
that ties them all together.
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