Folks, I wearing my slashdot hat now, so that means I did not read the article but will indeed ask questions. Are those blocks something like ruby blocks or closures? any clue?
Andre 2010/7/6 François Chaplais <[email protected]> > a good start is > http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/9 > If I understand well, its about finer granularity and management of > concurrent process. To allow, this, objective-c has be extended with new > entities called blocks. Blocks have a very small footprint by comparison to > threads, so actually it is easer to program because you use them extensively > with almost no worry. > Le 7 juil. 2010 à 01:46, JosepM a écrit : > > > > > Hi, > > > > I read some post about a new language that will be replace the > Objective-c > > called xLang. > > > > Any idea? This can affect the next releases of Rev? > > > > http://9to5mac.com/node/19165 > > > > > > We’re leaving this one open to the floor for comment, but would like to > note > > that operating systems must also grow, and development environments must > > continue to re-invent themselves as rationale to give this one air time, > but > > there's a rumor Apple's developing a new dev language to succeed > > Objective-C... > > DF reports via Michael Tsai one Jesper, who writes: > > > > “After watching the eminently early and freely available WWDC 2010 > session > > videos, I think my scales have finally tipped. It is my belief that Apple > is > > definitely working on a new language to surpass Objective-C as their > > intended, primary, publicly recommended programming language, which I > will > > call “xlang”.” > > > > Clang, according to Wikipedia, is a compiler front end for the C, C++, > and > > Objective-C programming languages. It uses the Low Level Virtual Machine > > (LLVM) as its back end. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU > > Compiler Collection (GCC). Development is sponsored by Apple, and the > source > > code is licensed using a BSD-like open-source license. > > > > This could be part of the company’s plans as developers seem to be > beginning > > to wax lyrical on how Objective-C may need tweaking. > > > > Your thoughts? > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/What-about-the-new-language-from-Apple-tp2280329p2280329.html > > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
