Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <48101@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 29 Apr 91 16:22:25 GMT References: <47889@ut-emx.uucp> <47946@ut-emx.uucp> <6o6G#_oz1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 57 In article <6o6G#_oz1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <47946@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: > > > I left what I wrote previously in so you could re-read it. You see, > MessyDOS binaries can not be run on other platforms without an emulator. > C++ code can be compiled on any platform with a compiler for it with > minimal mods for any platform-dependant stuff. See the difference? Maybe ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ > someone there could spend more time explaining it to you... > >Sometimes this is simply not true. That depends on the windowing >system used, among other things. I left what I wrote _again_ and even underlined one of my key points for you. Any half-decent programmer can which can have its user interface changed without too much of a headache. > BTW, the PeeCee line is no more standard than the NeXT is the best-selling > Unix box on the market. > >Wrong. The PC is a standard! I hate to break it to you. Excuse me while a laugh a while... There. That's better. Please bother to get some experience with the PeeCee line before trying to make statements like that. Ask any person who has developed for that line how many times they have had to "port" their code to a different configuration of this so-called "standard" machine. It can be a significant amount of the development time in graphics-related applications like the ones I have done. Also, try working with more than the 640K DOS memory limit. There are different ways to do it depending on the CPU and what kind of memory it is. I don't call that standard by any means. >Buy an Objective C compiler for the PeeCee or Sun workstation then. >Objective C is a lot easier to learn than C++, which I learned first. Why? C++ is already an accepted standard. I've never even seen an ad for an Objective C compiler (not that I've been looking for one). Besides, ease of learning is generally an opinion. >If you think having source is better, then tell Commodore. When they >release their IB with Amiga DOS 3.0 in 1999, you will have the IB that >you've always wanted. Bzzt. Interface-building software has been available for the Amiga longer than the 040 NeXT has been available. >-Mike Greg -- Greg Harp |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV, | against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD." greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu| -- "I Lost on Jeopardy," Weird Al Yankovic