Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > On 6/9/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Smalltalk, Self, or Ruby would probably be a better place to start. I'd >> like to recommend Objective-C, except that the memory management piece >> is more complicated than I like, plus I haven't seen a decent book on >> it yet. > > Agreed on the memory management although Objective-C is finally > getting full gc in the next Mac OS X (Leopard). > > Haven't read it myself, but 4.5 stars off 29 reviews is encouraging: > http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Stephen-Kochan/dp/0672325861/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3663919-7533600?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181514220&sr=8-1 > > > I spent a lot of time with Objective-C on NeXTstep and really enjoyed > it. Lots of good OO borrowed from Smalltalk, lots of runtime speed and > a true superset of C. > > All things considered though, I'm a C# or Python guy these days.
Between these two, how do you choose which to use in various situations? is it an application domain question (or problem-type or requirements) or is it simply environment (Windows vs *nix) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
