Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa

FROM : colo
DATE : Mon Mar 24 18:02:50 2008

I only started in Ruby as a main Lang. I tried Cocoa in the past and
await the new book; and will read the pdf from Apple. But From what I
tried compared to Ruby.
The Fact that GC just works in Ruby helps tremendously with Rubys
straight forward syntax structure.

Aside from that. Are there tutorials or some such for these Cocoa
Release ideals or will I cross them when I read the pdf ?



On 3/24/08, Bill Cheeseman <<email_removed>> wrote:
> on 2008-03-24 11:30 AM, colo at <email_removed> wrote:
>
>  > In Ruby GC just works dandy without thought. Why is it so different in
>  > Cocoa Obj2.0?
>
>
> My main issue is how to know exactly when to declare instance variables weak
>  or strong. There seem to be some subtleties in that area that I don't yet
>  understand. On the other hand, it appears that these issues will rarely be
>  encountered, and that the simple rules of thumb in the documentation will
>  almost always be enough.
>
>
>  > What kinda of real headaches will I have jumping into osx programing
>  > compared to ruby ?
>
>
> I've never used Ruby, so I can't answer your question. The question I would
>  ask is the other way around: what kind of headaches would I have jumping
>  into Ruby?
>
>  After programming for years in Pascal, plus Basic before that, I found
>  learning C pretty easy. Then when I got into Objective-C and the Cocoa
>  frameworks, it took me an hour or two to understand the Objective-C
>  additions to standard C and maybe a day to be able to use them comfortably.
>  The Cocoa frameworks take a lot more study, of course, but that has nothing
>  to do with the language -- it's just like learning any new framework.
>
>
>  --
>
>  Bill Cheeseman - <email_removed>
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