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Pioneer DVR-110D + Mac friendly USB enclosure (or USB and Firewire for $20 more)

The LaCie one works great.

Hi, I'm new to software development so I was wondering, which programming language would be the best for Mac development, C++ or Objective-C. I will be programming in xCode, so whi…

Where should I go to learn (for the complete noob) about either one? After reading a few web pages, I kinda leaning towards Objective-C, but I can't find any that don't already req…

In either case you should really learn plain C first. But for Mac-specific programing, Objective-C is the language of choice. It has the best integration with the Mac APIs (eg, C…

Quote: Originally Posted by Brass In either case you should really learn plain C first. But for Mac-specific programing, Objective-C is the language of choice. It has the best…

Yes, Xcode will compile ANSI compliant C code.

Xcode can compile C++, Objective-C and plain old C. So you've got a compiler no matter which you go with. And yeah, a search would probably turn up better recommendations than you'…

Definitely spend most of your time learning C first. It helps to take a class in it. Then Objective-C will come easily.

Good luck making your decision. Like everyone, I agree that you should try and learn C first (or use the Cocoa bindings from a language like Python if learning C isn't your desire…

Quote: Originally Posted by PBG4 User Yes, Xcode will compile ANSI compliant C code. Wow! I thought that there was no way that XCode supported ANSI C, as I can't imagine an…

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 Wow! I thought that there was no way that XCode supported ANSI C, as I can't imagine anyone has written anything in ANSI C in at least 10 …

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 Wow! I thought that there was no way that XCode supported ANSI C, as I can't imagine anyone has written anything in ANSI C in at least 10 …

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 I personally disagree with Brass' statement that Obj-C syntax is far simpler than C++. IMHO, C++ more closely follows the C language behav…

Objective-C has more than one syntactic extension to C. It adds keywords such as @implementation…@end and @try, and the <ProtocolName> syntax for indicating conformance to a …

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 Good luck making your decision. Like everyone, I agree that you should try and learn C first (or use the Cocoa bindings from a language li…

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I will defiantly be writing Mac software 99.9% of the time, but if I want to write a Windows (or Linux) program, does a Obj-C compile…

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I will defiantly be writing Mac software 99.9% of the time, but if I want to write a Windows (or Linux) program, does a Obj-C compile…

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit You don't think anything has been written in C89 since 1995? What do you reckon all the C programmers were using in 1996? Whoops...I mis…

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.