On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 5:58 PM, has <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sherm Pendley wrote: > > I think Apple is interested in making Cocoa in general more >> competitive, not just Objective-C. In fact, I suspect that their recent >> increased interest in supporting scripting bridges for Cocoa may be at >> least >> partly motivated by a need to compete with .NET's multi-language CLR. >> > > Absolutely, and don't forget Apple's longstanding and ongoing lack of a > credible mid-level language to compete with Visual Basic. Love it or hate > it, a good chunk of the software development world rotates around VB. > Bringing the Unixy scripting languages on-board would go a good way towards > filling in that gap
We're getting there. What we have works, but speaking strictly for my own project, I'm well aware that there's more to be done. Perl's DBI database module, and drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite are included with CamelBones, as well as a collection of Perl's object-relational modules built around DBIx::Class. I can do a lot of things with CamelBones for which I would use Access or VB on Windows - in my opinion there's a lot of opportunity in that area as the Mac presence increases in business. Still, it's not as smooth as I would like it yet. CamelBones' KVC/KVO support is limited to scalar types, and I would like to add indexed accessors for Perl arrays. For now, we have to write the "old school" methods by hand to provide rows of data for a table - lots of boring, error-prone boilerplate. And there's an object mapping layer (DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader) that generates Perl classes for database tables - I'd like to extend it to generate classes that are exported to ObjC. > Also worth noting for those that aren't already aware of it that Laurent > Sansonetti, the Apple engineer behind Leopard's Ruby support, has been > working on a version of Ruby that runs directly on top of the ObjC runtime, > obviating the need for bridging altogether: > > http://ruby.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/MacRuby That's a great idea, and I've been watching that project with interest. Sadly, even though I've known C for nearly 20 years, looking inside perl.c scares me nearly as much as the idea of writing a Perl parser from scratch. :-( sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
