Hi " ban anything but Objective C "
But Apple is not; you can use C/C++/Objective C to build App's for the iPhone its in the ToS. I think Apple is trying to stop Flash being built on Windows, you should build iPhone App's on Mac hardware :) Paul On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:50 PM, wilfred <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- 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.
