Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit They do, but it would likely be a lot more than a simple recompile —�but that's true of porting a C++ Mac program as well. The only project…

Carbon and Cocoa are very different. It's not that one is necessarily less capable than the other, they're just different. To generalize a lot, I would say Cocoa is "easier." Carbo…

I think that Apple originally inteded Carbon to be a "transition" technology from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X. However, this is certainly not the case now. It is not the poor cous…

If you're writing new code, then cocoa is probably the best way to go since you're starting fresh. Carbon does have it's applications though and certainly could be used. IMO, car…

Cocoa is meant for Objective-C, but you can use other languages with it. Java, Perl, Python, Ruby and probably several others I haven't thought of all have Cocoa bridges.

Note that the Java bridge is deprecated, though.

I thought the bridging technology was deprecated (Bridgette or whatever it was called), but Cocoa-Java was still alive. Did they deprecate the whole thing?

They've said that no future API will be added to Cocoa-Java, but existing ones will continue to work.

Definitely go with Cocoa/Objective-C. You can find plenty of information on how to do so in the archives. C++ is a terrible language. Never learn it if you can help it.

Quote: Originally Posted by parallax Definitely go with Cocoa/Objective-C. You can find plenty of information on how to do so in the archives. C++ is a terrible language. Never…

Go to http://cocoadevcentral.com and read C tutorial. It gives you enough C to move on to ObjC. Whatever language you choose to learn, just remember that the languages aren't tha…

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I've started on C, and I plan to go onto Cocoa/Objective-C, but what makes C++ a terrible language? C++ is a strongly typed langu…

In short, C++ is a hack of an object-oriented system. There are places where it's just broken (search the web for details). Debugging errors with templates is a nightmare. MacG33k…

Quote: Originally Posted by MacG33k Go to http://cocoadevcentral.com and read C tutorial. It gives you enough C to move on to ObjC. Whatever language you choose to learn, just…

Earlier today there was an article on MacNN about installing Windows XP on a Mac Book Pro. Now the article is gone. The article referenced the following page: http://neosmart.ne…

because the author was admittedly talking about theoreticals. The original macnn article talked about it like it had been accomplished. The person who wrote the instructions admit…

I saw that same page linked to by a bunch of mac blogs before people realized that he had NO idea what he was talking about.

Yeah, the guy that wrote that really has not followed the issue very well. His plan would fail at step 1. Also, there is a solution to the brickified iMacs. Apparently, there is…

Why would someone want to do this ? One of the main reasons for buying a Mac is to get away from the horrors of Windows..

Quote: Originally Posted by dsteinman Why would someone want to do this ? One of the main reasons for buying a Mac is to get away from the horrors of Windows.. I would I d…

Theming Windows means it's more open than OS X? Uh. OK. I'd say that having Unix underpinnings and embedded server applications (MySQL, Postfix, Apache, PHP, et al.) are waaaaaaa…

Quote: Originally Posted by iomatic Theming Windows means it's more open than OS X? Uh. OK. I'd say that having Unix underpinnings and embedded server applications (MySQL, Pos…

True dat. But. OS X Server runs LDAP, and Postfix has lots more standards-based options for mail filtering, etc. It's just one paradigm that's different for running a network inf…

It never ceases to amaze me that as soon as one person mentions installing XP on a Mac, a whole bunch of people inevitably ask “why would you want to put XP on a Mac?” And the ans…

I'm no zealot. I happen to have (note past-tense) used lots of Windows versions alongside the Mac OS), and in large and small corporate settings (read: large sports apparel company…