On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:32 AM, ERG Consultant <erg_consult...@yahoo.com> wrote: > / has been in use since the inception of unix in 1970 that's 39 years. I > seriously doubt it's going to change anytime soon. In 39 more years, i'll be > dead.
Cocoa is derived from Openstep (or OPENSTEP, or OpEnStEp, depending on the state of the caps lock key in the marketing department at the time). Openstep has run on a multitude of platforms, including Microsoft Windows. This is why the API exists. With the API you also get bonuses like proper concatenation of non-delimiter-terminated paths with relative paths. In other words, why not just use the damn API? It's not like you need to deposit a coin to make a function call. --Kyle Sluder P.S. Apologies for the pun. P.P.S. If you did have to pay per call, how much more expensive would a far call be? :) _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
