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Re:Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creato... by 10ren on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @12:00PM (#583364)
The issues addressed in the table of contents appeal to me; but I expect you're right, that there would only be cohesiveness within each section, not between them.

BTW: I've heard good things about Objective-C. Any idea why it was not successful outside Apple? Was it because of Apple's proprietary approach?

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Re:Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creato... by harpastum on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @12:11PM (#583407)
As far as I can tell (as an amateur mac developer), the major advantage Objective-C has on the mac over other platforms is the extensive support that Cocoa [1], Apple's giant grouping of APIs/Frameworks/etc, lends. It's so helpful, in fact, that many Mac developers refer to programming in Objective-C as "Cocoa Programming" (also, it's the title of the best programming book I've ever read [2]).

[1]http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/

[2]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321503619

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Re:Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creato... by 10ren on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @12:25PM (#583438)
Sounds like it's branded/positioned as "Cocoa"... and possibly support is lacking on other platforms (I guess you mean libraries - they're crucial for language success).
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Re:Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creato... by dschobel on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @12:47PM (#583491)
more so in objective-c which is really a simple language.

the framework is everything.

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