On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Erik Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cocoa is the most consistent, elegant, and productive software development > technology I have ever used, and I have used a lot. Cocoa uses key > metaphors and design patterns ubiquitously. If the programmer is either > unaware of the metaphors or does not see their utility, it will be > difficult to use Cocoa. If a programmer fails to grasp a particular > pattern, the whole framework may be incomprehensible because the pattern is > most likely used throughout.
I have to second this. Cocoa certainly has its quirks, but it seems to have far fewer of them than any other toolkit (especially any other GUI toolkit) that I've ever worked with. I daresay that 90% of the problems that I've seen with Cocoa usage (either my own or that of others) is born out of the programmer fighting the system. It's very easy to get an idea in your head about how something "must" work, and because we're dealing with Turing-complete languages here we can generally make something work even if it requires taking a sledgehammer to the problem. And, of course, when we're done forcing the round peg into the square hole, we're frustrated that the toolkit didn't make it easy for us. With Cocoa, there seems to a be a very simple guiding principle: If you're frustrated because the system isn't letting you do what you want, rethink what you want to do and how you want to do it. A lot of thought and design has gone into Cocoa; it's worth respecting all of that design and asking yourself, when you're fighting the frameworks, if it's really the frameworks that are doing the wrong thing in that instance- because, at least in my experience, chances are it's the programmer. -- - David T. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
