IMHO Objective-C 2.0 looks like Apple's attempt to make Objective-C
competitive with existing scripting languages, given the addition of
the dot syntax for accessors and garbage collection changes.
Given that the real strength of scripting languages is tons of useful
community supplied modules, real database functionality, and most
importantly, regular expressions, and that you get virtually all of
those things "right-out-of the-box" when you download said scripting
language, I think Apple's really missed the mark with Objective-C 2.0
(if competitiveness with scripting languages is what they were
shooting for).
-- Ilan
On May 22, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
On 23 May 2008, at 3:20 am, Andy Lee wrote:
That may be, but that is different from demanding that Apple "lower
the barriers" by changing Cocoa itself to resemble those platforms.
I think many of the additions in Object-C 2.0 and the addition of
garbage collection is *precisely* a case of changing Cocoa to
resemble other platforms (i.e. Java). Personally I don't find any of
the new features all that compelling, though they are no doubt
worthwhile for many. Since veteran Cocoa programmers have managed
fine without any of these for a long time, I can only deduce that
these changes were added by Apple for the express purpose of
lowering the barriers to entry for programmers coming from a Java
or .NET background.
G.
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