-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/8/10 20:56 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Microsoft isn't abandoning .NET as far as I know. They DID abandon > making .NET the base language for their OS. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back > then, when Vista was still called Longhorn, the idea was for > Windows to be a C kernel that basically ran .NET directly. Just > like OS X is basically a C core that runs Objective C directly. > > That's NOT what happened - microsoft abandoned longhorn and all it > stood for; the main language for writing apps on windows remains > C+ +; .NET is a light veneer on top of this, not much different > from java. > > Someone made the claim that apple isn't innovating on os x anymore. > I mentioned the longhorn debacle to show that the opposite is > true, because apple DID go through with THEIR longhorn: When OS X > came out, most apps were developed with carbon, including apple's > own. Now, carbon is deprecated and on its way out, and the primary > dev language for mac os x apps is cocoa. Objective C is closer to > java than C++, in case you were wondering. Of course, everything is questionable here, Reiner. :-) For instance, you're mixing the concept of a language used to write an o.s. with the one used to write application for it; and ObjC is very far from C++, of course, but very far from Java too, both as a language and both as being an old thing that compiles directly to native code.
Anyway, this is completely irrelevant to the original topic - the poster was asserting that most of the focus of Apple is now on iOS rather than Mac OS X. I suppose it's just a matter of counting the tracks at WWDC to get the point, not to speak about how long Jobs is giving in his keynotes to the iStuff rather than Mac OS X in the latest two years. - -- 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwOlSQACgkQeDweFqgUGxdLHQCfR32xZ0DSrHifsUF8kgtz3TQ4 +6MAmwWTwS3ZC1CXEzsAmorb6jOiYDaP =5yZe -----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.
