Listening to the last episode right now, in particular the comments on Apple's decision to ban anything but Objective C based apps from the iPhone and iPad. Next to me, on top of a pile of books, there is a book opened up on a page that has some ties with what is being discussed. It's part of an open letter to Steve Jobs, dating from 1996:
"Dear Steve, .... Drop Objective C. There's no money to be made supporting yet another object language. Use C++ with SOM and you;ll get all the same benefits without the headaches. If you don't like C++, use Smalltalk with CORBA - it will also give you the same results. ...." It's part of Robert Orfali's book on Distributed Object Computing. I think it's pretty hilarious, looking back. Rather than scaring developers off - as the authors expected - Objective C is now being used to scare people away from targeting anything but Steve's platform. -- 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.
