Re: Objective-C programming

[Sherm Pendley]

"Mehul N. Sanghvi" <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:

> Gregory John Casamento said the following on 9/28/2005 10:23 PM:
>> Sherm,
>> --- Sherm Pendley <sherm@dot-app.org> wrote:
>>
>>> "Mehul N. Sanghvi" <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to do any useful Objective-C programming, without
>>>> GNUstep?
>>> Yes - tens of thousands of Macintosh developers do so every day.
>> I'm pretty sure he meant on AppKit/Foundation. :)

D'oh! :-(

>> GNUstep's base/gui (Foundation/AppKit) are much more mature than objci, so
>> this begs the question, why do you want to avoid using them?
>
> I am not trying to avoid using them, just that I have a low-end machine
> and don't want to strain it too much by having to make use of the
> GUI (low end being 66MHz NuBus PowerMac 7100).  As I said in my original
> post, I have wanted to learn Objective-C

There's actually not all that much to learn about the language itself. Class
declaration, message passing, and a few other OOP fundamentals - that's it.

The class library takes a *lot* more time to learn. It's very intuitive,
but it's also quite large. But, you can learn many of the most useful pieces
of that with just Foundation - memory management and autorelease pools,
collection classes, i/o classes - there's lots of good stuff you can do
without a GUI.

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