🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior
Article #1219

Re: [ANN] CodeWarrior 6 update and Early Access to CW 7

#1219
From: John C. Randolph
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:26
29 lines
2374 bytes

Gabriele de Simone wrote:
> 
> >> ** News Flash **  CodeWarrior U Now Offering PowerPlant Courses
> >
> > Great!  Learn an obsolete C++ API today!
> >
> > -jcr
> 
> As opposed to Obj-C which is brand new?

The question isn't whether it's new, but whether it's obsolete. 
Powerplant is.  Cocoa isn't.
 
> I might be a big fan of PowerPlant, but as far as my recollection of
> programming languages goes there is only one language whose syntax I hate
> more than Objective C, and it's Scheme.

I see that Obj-C is in good company, then.  How do you feel about smalltalk?

> All we really need is for Metrowerks to release a PowerPlant which uses
> Quartz instead of QuickDraw... I don't know what you guys think but my
> carbonized PP applications look very cheap under OS X.

It's not just PP apps.  The only Carbon app I've seen that doesn't look
cheap under OS X is iTunes.  

-jcr
Technical Details
Message-ID: <3AED843A.E5772E74@idiom.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeeder.randori.com!news.randori.com!not-for-mail
References: <mwron-4071F5.12022227042001@enews.newsguy.com> <270420011247402406%demars@mminternet.com> <mwron-44A385.21482727042001@enews.newsguy.com> <3AEC77D4.37F5085C@idiom.com> <B7124ACD.3737%zelig@bu.edu>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10bcce,3c1f473dfc29a752
X-Google-Attributes: gid10bcce,public
X-Google-Thread: 111f0d,3c1f473dfc29a752
X-Google-Attributes: gid111f0d,public
X-Google-Thread: f635e,3c1f473dfc29a752
X-Google-Attributes: gidf635e,public
X-Google-Thread: f98ee,3c1f473dfc29a752
X-Google-Attributes: gidf98ee,public
X-Google-Thread: f7f77,3c1f473dfc29a752
X-Google-Attributes: gidf7f77,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-30 08:33:02 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeeder.randori.com!news.randori.com!not-for-mail
Message-ID: <3AED843A.E5772E74@idiom.com>
From: "John C. Randolph" <jcrNOSPAM@idiom.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,codewarrior.mac,codewarrior.java,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: [ANN]  CodeWarrior 6 update and Early Access to CW 7
References: <mwron-4071F5.12022227042001@enews.newsguy.com> <270420011247402406%demars@mminternet.com> <mwron-44A385.21482727042001@enews.newsguy.com> <3AEC77D4.37F5085C@idiom.com> <B7124ACD.3737%zelig@bu.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 29
Organization: http://www.idiom.com
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:26:49 -0700