Re: Carbon vs Cocoa arguments

FROM : Scott Corliss
DATE : Tue Oct 08 23:48:57 2002

This actually goes against what you're trying to prove, but might give
you a little different viewpoint on Carbon.

http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000024.php


On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 04:26 PM, Benjamin Frere wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm very new to programming.
> I've never code in C or anything else, but I wanna begin to learn
> C and Cocoa. And I do that with a friend. But he irritates me about
> Carbon.
> I don't wanna touch Carbon. Carbon is great to port application from
> OS 9
> but it's not as good as Cocoa...
> But for me, as I know nothing about programming, it's just a feeling...
> I say to my friend + look, carbon app are not as beautif as Cocoa, and
> they're slower etc...;
> and he respond that Carbon is evolving (that is true, like the new
> Drawer.h etc),
> and will be the major API for OS X.
> Some of other of theirs arguments that no big software company haven't
> already port an app
> in Cocoa, just because Carbon's code  is nearer the Windows'app
> code(that is in some case true) and they'll
> never do a completely different code for a really smaller market etc
> etc...
> He takes the example of Microsoft and Adobe. But for me, Photoshop,
> Illustrator etc... and Office X
> are not great at all on OS X. I don't feel them good in OS X. Slow...
> ugly (OS X is for me just a make up on
> Office 2001)
>
> Where can i found documentation that compares Carbon and Cocoa up to
> the smallest level in the system
> integration... I want to prove him that Cocoa is better with something
> else that my feelings.
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