-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/12/10 06:41 , Christian Edward Gruber wrote: > With all due respect, and with definite agreement on your points > about language evolution, etc., nevertheless, Obejctive-C got some > things right that we tried to get into Java but were routinely > ignored at sun, and it took several decades to get going in other > languages. Objective-C contains elements of AOP, has a > garbage-collector (not on iPhone, but that's a mobile-ism, and not > uncommon in constrained environments), etc. Hmm... with all its defects, J2ME has had GC since 1999... Of course, Android has got it right from its start. what do you mean with "not uncommon?"
Given that, the arguments about whether ObjC is good or not is not something that passionates me. I'm with the side that thinks that it's mostly old stuff (anything that directly compiled in native code is old stuff for me, as we have seen in 15+ years what the advantages are for indirect compilation), but I admit it's largely a personal perspective thing. Let's not divert from the the original point, which is 1) the lack of choice and 2) the lack of choice pushed to the extreme that ObjC must be used directly. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvC5hIACgkQeDweFqgUGxd/5gCeLSO+6VD8V6knAbtDNVXr6haU a6sAn0RoDqpM4t7wyYLGt3EkiP3Wr9/7 =k5tM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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.
