Re: Python/Ruby for Cocoa (was: Simple question)

FROM : Paul Sargent
DATE : Mon Mar 17 19:39:27 2008

On 17 Mar 2008, at 17:46, Hamish Allan wrote:

> If you're cutting your programming teeth on Cocoa, you might find that
> Python or Ruby is gentler.


I'm not sure I agree. Two problems for me.

* Cocoa isn't a seamless fit with either python or ruby, so there are 
little corner cases around that don't feel quite right. Method naming, 
for example, reads correctly in Objective C, but not in Python. In 
fact it can get quite confusing.

* The documentation for Cocoa on Python and Ruby is far less bountiful 
than for Objective C, so you end up reading Objective C documents and 
translating them to Python or Ruby.

I really like Python (in particular) as a teaching language, but I 
wouldn't teach cocoa with it.