On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. I agree there is a sort of psychological > hurdle that has to be overcome: one has to accept that Cocoa will require > learning a lot of fundamentals, and learning to think differently about some > things (like the dangers of dynamic messaging). But I think it's best if we > make that hurdle as easy to overcome as possible, instead of assuming it's > at exactly the right height now.
Absolutely! > I don't want to see a lot of crappy apps, period, even if they're written by > people who *do* take the time. But how much time *is* "the time"? Do I > only trust programmers who take six months to become productive? Two > months? Forty-seven days? Well, "the time" is not an absolute time, and "the time to understand the whole picture" is not a reflection of a person's capability, but their inclination. Obviously, the smaller the cognitive load of the introductory material, the better, but the main problem seems to be getting people to read it in the first place. (Indeed, it may actually be a historical accident that I myself am not one of those people: I learned Cocoa from a book (Garfinkel and Mahoney) when I was away from my Mac for a week, so I read the whole thing from cover to cover before I had a chance to try to get ahead of myself. And of course we didn't have to force ourselves not to try to run with bindings and core data before we could walk with data sources because bindings didn't exist.) > I have no fear of the market > being flooded by programmers who didn't do their Cocoa homework. For one > thing, their apps will either crash all the time or leak memory like a > sieve. I hope you're right. That picture sounds a bit like the situation with another operating system :) Hamish _______________________________________________ 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]
