Re: Cocoa Technologies Back-Story?

FROM : Scott Stevenson
DATE : Sun May 01 18:38:44 2005

On Apr 30, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Erik M. Buck wrote:

> My guess is that 90+ percent of all software written is database and
> business automation related.


I though about 90% were of the "Elf Bowling" variety.


> If the application is primarily computational instead of data
> management oriented, I would probably not choose CoreData.  I doubt
> Core Data can substantially automate or improve a ray tracer, a
> fractal generator, a PDF viewer, an industrial equipment controller, a
> low level DVD burner, many games, etc.


At least true for Core Data 1.0. They've left themselves a lot of room
to grow.

Actually, I'd pull the PDF viewer out of that list, since you could do
some rather interesting things with large documents with a lot of
reference.


    - Scott

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