Is your personal hubris about a job you were not offered 14 years ago (and tastes for interview style) somehow relevant to the other developers on this list?
b Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 23, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Michael Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Cocoa Text is glacially slow compared to what it would be had Apple > offered me the developer tools job I interviewed for in 2001. > > Perhaps, when interviewing with the Xocde team, it might not have been > a bad idea to avoid criticizing Xcode. I made it quite clear that I > was unimpressed with Mac OS X in general, and to this day, I regard > Mac OS System 8.1 as the very finest System Software release Apple has > ever produced. > > Are you familiar with the term "Bozo Filter"? > > More or less, I won't accept a job offer, unless I can call my > potential employer a jackass directly to his face - then have him > agree that he is, in fact, a jackass. > > No doubt you expect that I am of very modest means. I was quite > wealthy at one time, but my money did not do me a whole lot of good. > Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer > mdcrawf...@gmail.com > http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ > > Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan > Area. > > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: >> >> On Jan 23, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Michael Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> At one time I found it quite painful to edit source code with Xcode. >> I was told that was due to Xcode using the Cocoa text widget. >> >> Consider that Lightspeed C worked just fine, snappy and responsive, on >> my 6 MHz 68000 Mac 512k (or was it 8 MHz). >> >> >> I used Lightspeed C too. Its editor didn't support Unicode, or any languages >> outside the basic Roman alphabet. That's a significant quality-of-life issue >> for programmers whose first language isn't English. It also didn't do live >> syntax checking or code folding. In fact it only supported monospaced >> single-color text (no syntax highlighting.) >> >> The Cocoa text system compares to that editor, or MacWrite, the way >> Photoshop compares to a crayon. And some of those features may seem like >> nice-to-have frills to Americans (contextual forms, ligatures, bidirectional >> layout, pop-up text input panels) but are must-haves for languages written >> by the majority of the world's people. >> >> I'm sure that if we resurrected the Lightspeed C engine, it would let you >> type at about ten million words-per-minute on today's computers. So what? >> The editor only needs to be fast enough to keep up with human fingers. The >> rest of the CPU time can be dedicated to extra features. >> >> Cocoa Text isn't slow. (And it wasn't slow on a Power Mac G3 back in the day >> either.) One guy is having some nasty slowdowns that seem to be caused by >> something incidental, not an intrinsic problem with the text system. >> >> --Jens > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/ben%40zygoat.ca > > This email sent to b...@zygoat.ca _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
