Re: BIG problem

[Peter Adams <padams@stanford.edu>]

Some of you guys ought to go into tea leaf reading. From a technical
point of view
Obj-C is going to the language choice for the highest
performance/compatibility
with Yellow. I believe you can write C++ in PB if you really want to. As
a matter
of fact there are some examples in WO4.  It seems a bit obvious in a
venue like
MacWorld Apple is going to be "hell bent" on promoting what the most
people know
about - Java, as much as anybody there knows about development
languages. And next
to no one knows about Obj-C other that OpenStep and WO developers.
Focusing on
Obj-C loses them a lot of developers who might be interested in the Mac.
Talking
about "standardization" is good marketing also. Java, unless some
technical
revolution comes about, e.g., native compilers producing the performance
of Obj-C,
is going to be a choice for some application development, but Obj-C is
not going
to go away any time soon.

Pete


Thomas Sivertsen wrote:

> >At 6:16 AM -0800 1/7/99, Thomas Sivertsen wrote:
> [SNIP]
> >I'm really confused on how you read "Hell Bent" on this:
>
> Yes I read that part... I read hell-bent in that because Apple haven`t

> talked about/promoted Objective.C at all. Java is clearly a higher
priority
> than Obj-C. It is my conclusion, but I don`t think it`s far fetched.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> >It really seems like the ball is in our (the developer's) court on
this on=
> e.
> >
> >-Greg
>
> Hmmm.... And how much has that helped earlier? (does MXS/Intel ring a
bell?=
> )
>
> I`m not saying it won`t help to be vocal about Obj-C support, but
Apple
> haven`t exactly got a great track record of listening to users and
> developers. If they are hell-bent on moving to something, they will do
it.
> And that is *my* asessment of the situation. Sorry.
>
> I really don`t think I`ll bother to stick around for another
disappointment=
> ,
> even though it may not be. I`m just tired of waiting.
> The way things are going, I think I=B4ll stick to the "2nd Best
Thing=81" - Mac
> OS and Linux.
> What I am not going to do is wait, or expect that Apple will care one
iota
> what I want, need, require, etc.
>
> Not so cheery, but still;
>
> Cheers, Thomas Sivertsen
> tsivertsen@c2i.net

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Peter Adams
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Stanford University Language Center
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Peter Adams
Systems SW Developer
Stanford University Language Center
vc: 650-725-7909
em: padams@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu