[brailleblaster] Re: Objective C
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:33:06 -0600
Ah, now we're in familiar territory...*smile*
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Jurgensen" <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:43 PM
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Objective C
Hi,
I was leaning more towards C++ myself, not Objective-C, but as you pointed
out, there are other languages.
Regards,
Alex,
On 2011-02-02, at 2:26 PM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Here is a link to the objective-c wikipedia page for what it is worth
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C. From what I read elsewhere
> objective-c gets little use compared to other languages outside the Apple
> world.
>
> I did have a bit of a look at objective-c when I first got my Mac, but
> soon decided to move on. I think there are probably languages which are
> more productive to use (eg. python is quite good if you want to interact
> with native code, tools like cython, ctypes, pyobjc, etc help). I believe
> ruby has a bridge to cocoa, Java has rococoa http://rococoa.googlecode.com
> which does the same for Java, etc. Programming languages are a personal
> preference (eg. python's lack of static typing doesn't sit well with me
> but python is far easier to just quickly try something out than Java is,
> scala http://www.scala-lang.org looks interesting to me but the eclipse
> plugin isn't particularly great), so I will leave things there as it won't
> progress anything by continuing.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 02/02/11 18:13, John J. Boyer wrote:
>> How does Objective C differ from C++? Doesn't it have to be compiled for
>> each platform. I assume it is available for the platforms we have been
>> discusing. A URL to a tutorial would be helpful. Another possibility to
>> look ito.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>
>
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