It's rather depressing to know that starting with iPhone OS 4 that in order to program apps for iphone/itouch/ipad, one has to step backwards to a weird hybrid variant of C language that is a two decade old anachronism. The one virtue of Objective-C is that it's actually a better OOP language than C++. Yet in the end it's C with its raw address pointers -- and to boot, reference counted memory objects (ugh!)
For decades it's been an axiom that innovation in software development takes place in the languages and tools every bit as much as in the applications that get developed. Now Apple is forbidding that manner of creativity. Yes, they made some tweaks to Objective-C with 2.0, but much of that was not really that earth shaking - and some features, like garbage collected memory, are not available on the mobile devices. This has been a great era for new computer languages and ideas coming to surface, yet for the Apple mobile devices its back to the computer language technology of circa 1991. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
