Apple has been pushing Carbon as an transitory technology but they really should not be. Carbon is maturing into a lot more than a simple way to move OS9 apps to OSX. The develop…

Wow. I have half an iota of what is being discussed in this thread, but it is incredibly interesting.

I just wanted to let you guys know that the sun java tools/compiler is included with the public beta, so if you can bear the command line, you can start out developing in java with…

Carbon is the traditional MacOS 8/9 API updated for OS X. For a new programmer it has a steep learning curve. Cocoa is the traditional NeXTStep API updated for OS X. Cocoa is also…

Slider wrote (way up in this thread): Quote: OK, what would you recommend I use to learn UNIX on my Mac? I would be starting from scratch. I'm in somewhat th…

I figured that I would chime in on these developer comments here. I just got into programing near the begining of this year. Therefore, I'm not an expert, feel free to correct me i…

One of the main advantages of Cocoa\Objective C is that it turns the whole OS into something similar to Lisp\Smalltalk machines. In those machines, since everything is an object i…