Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 03:25:34 EET
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 07:47:55 -0500, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that Apple adopted it just to be different/moderately
> incompatible. They like to trumpet
> OSX's Unix kernel, and the fact that Unix apps port to OSX pretty
> easily, but the coding style and
> development tools and techniques they encourage seem to be pretty un-Unix.
> OTOH, I certainly couldn't write Obj C code, but it doesn't seem to be
> too hard to read if you're familiar
> with C and C++.
It doesn't really require any c++ familarity, its more like Smalltalk (a
"real" OO language).
Apple do have a history of Objective C, and they use gnu compiler IIRC, so
in theory porting OSX apps or writing linux.osc apps shouldn't be hard.
- Steve
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