[GLLUG] Best Web/Desktop Programming solution (...)
Michael George
george at mutualdata.com
Wed Apr 20 06:33:34 EDT 2005
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:34:37PM -0400, Sean O'Malley wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Asenchi wrote:
>
> I'm not dissing Ruby, but SmallTalk was pretty popular, Next(open)Step
> which is integrated with MacOS X, was a pretty popular OOP languages.
I must admit, I've not been all over the map in software development, but I've
not know Smalltalk to be what I would call "popular" for application
development. I know it is useful as the perennial example of a pure OO
language, but beyond that. Please enlighten me.
I also don't think I would cay that Next/Open-step and OS X "were" popular. I
think they were ahead of their time and may still come to popularity. I think
the biggest obstacle for that environment right now is the popularity of web
applications and a strange aversion to C. I've worked some with Cocoa and I
think as a development platform it is pretty darn good. It can be very
rapidly developed, has a full object library (that makes working in
Objective-C more like working with PHP, IMO), and is quite efficient.
Openstep is also OSS. IIRC, Openstep is lagging Cocoa a bit w.r.t. included
libraries, which is unfortunate. For internal apps, I think Cocoa/Openstep
should be considered as heavily as a Web app. I realize, though, that
lack of popularity hinders that consideration.
--
-M
There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
More information about the linux-user
mailing list