Re: Cross-Platform Windows plus Mac

In article <slrnfhr8gv.3c6.root@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Paul Floyd <root@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:25:53 -0500, Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> > I never understood this argument. Objective-C takes virtually no time
to 
> > learn when compared against the time it takes to learn an application 
> > framework. The fact that it's not the same language as the rest of
your 
> > code should be irrelevant; your platform-specific code isn't going to 
> > compile on other platforms *anyway*, so what's the big deal if it's 
> > failing to compile because it's missing a bunch of libraries and
headers, 
> > or if it's failing to compile because it's missing a bunch of
libraries 
> > and headers and is written in a language you don't happen to have a 
> > compiler for?
> 
> ****ting issues between SUSv3 platforms aren't too serious. Windows poses
> a lot more problems. However, Qt increasingly covers many non-GUI
> aspects as well. I've been programming C since the late eighties and C++
> since the early nineties, and I still consider that I have much to
> learn. Is Objective-C really that trivial?

In a word, yes. In more words: A competent C programmer should be able 
to absorb Objective-C in its entirety in hours. Well under a work day.

G