On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 02:37 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 5/7/02 at 13:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sherm Pendley) wrote: > >> There's also an O'Reilly book in the works, being written by Dan >> Sugalski. It's going to be called "Programming Cocoa Applications with >> Perl." > > This book I'm _very_ interested in.
There's an interesting story behind it, too. Dan was contracted to write the book, and begun working on it with the intention of writing his own Cocoa/Perl bridge. He had just gotten started when I announced CamelBones, and as luck would have it, he had started by creating wrappers for non-oop functions - which was precisely what I *hadn't* done yet in CamelBones. As further luck would have it, Apple has decided to release their in-house Objective-C bridge as part of Jaguar. This also addresses a need that CamelBones does not; it works in standalone .pl scripts run from the shell. It doesn't, however, have any GUI capabilities - you can only use Foundation classes with it. In fact, I'm told that the man page for it will suggest CamelBones for building GUI apps in Perl. If I were a believer in Fate, I'd almost say that Perl and OS X were meant for one another - the way that things sort of just fell into place is kind of amazing. > I'm somewhat of a collector of O'Reilly books (thirty-two at last > count) so it's a shoo in anyway but the subject matter really excites > me. This is the first I've heard of it... I call it my Paper Menagerie. :-) I don't think O'Reilly has publicized the book yet, but it's mentioned by name in their newer Cocoa book's introduction, so I assume it isn't a secret. sherm--
