Development environment (BIS)

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Thank you very much to all of you for your suggestions and comments. 
This message is rather long and if you dont have time, please read at 
least the last two (small) paragraphs that contain mys question.

I must admit that my initial question was rather of a practical 
nature. Even if I am not very proficient, I had to learn some 
languages in the past (computing and natural ones) and I have 
remarked that learning a new one is quite easy if the logic of the 
new one is similar with the logic of one that I already know. Passing 
from C++ to Java or even PhP was not a very heavy burden. I think 
this also conditions our sympathy for the languages we use and 
consequently, language debates are very affective.

I have been programming in java in the last year and had enaough of 
constructing everything myself each time. Here enters Swarm. I have 
seen that the SWARM Team has done a magnificient job and I can now 
concentrate on the logic of my model instead of bells and whistles 
that generally take more time than the core elements of the model 
(writing a GUI is a hassle even with Visual cafe that simplifies a 
lot this burden). By the way, I have accepted to commit to a 
proprietary interface (vcafe) for this reason too even if it is a 
some sort of slavery: it takes many things in charge and I dont have 
to manage them. You can hence see that I am not really a control-
maniac and I accept the trade-off even if it can have some 
epistemological costs (how to know that the model does exactly what 
you want if you do not control every bit of it). But this last point 
seems to me to be valid also for Swarm.

Consequently, at a practical level, given that the documenttaion of 
Swarm (tutorials and else) are oriented towards ObjC, what is the 
opinion that have mildest learning curve: learn ObjC and benefit from 
this documentation or try to learn the integration of Swarm in Java 
by using only the few exemples?

My first impression was that the ObjC option was better (given the 
documentation).Hence my question about the development interface 
under MS-Windows. Given that learning a new language does not really 
afraid me, what is your advice?

Thank you again for your interest for my existential questions (!)

 
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Murat Yildizoglu                  
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