On 11 April 2010 17:42, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 April 2010 17:29, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bsch...@anest.ufl.edu> wrote: >> Interesting theory. The question is are they trying to force developers to >> buy Macs, or are they simply trying to avoid the hassles of targeting >> Windows? 10+ years to present day is an interesting time frame. OLE was >> pretty much out of the way (supported but not pressed and certainly not >> dominating the work flow of the masses), COM was still the answer to >> everything, at least until the OCX/ActiveX silliness got into full swing, >> and then they started threatening to do away with native code (.Net, >> presentation framework, end of the portable executable format, etc.). >> >> If I could avoid all of that *and* sell some of my high-priced hardware at >> the same time, I might do the same thing that Apple is doing. >> > > But what makes you think, that your approach to software development > is any better than any other one? > Or, that having C, C++, Object-C and JavaScript is all what today's > developper needs? >
You could have a brilliant hardware with tons of cool functionality. But without good software this is just a piece of useless metal and plastic. And we know, that all good things is brought to life in open and free, creative environments, not in sealed and secured , paranoic places. People won't buy an 'approved' C++ crap, if they will have a choice to use something which is way better. And they are really don't care, what language is used to implement software. P.S. i miss the S letter in 'Apple's name, so , i will put a $ instead :) > >> Bill >> >> >> -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
