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WWDC 2006的相關影片前陣子陸續發布到了iTMS上，WWDC的與會者可以下載回來看。

雖然說OS X裡有越來越多Cocoa相關的程式庫，但是大多數 Core- 開頭的東西還是以 C 言為基礎的 API。意思是說，任何想在OS X深入一點的開法者，起碼還是得了解 CFRelease、NS- 與 CF- 開頭的資料結構的免費橋接 (“toll-free” bridging)，這一類 CoreFoundation 的基礎。

有人曾經問我：到底 OS X 上能不能用 C++ 來開發？更進一步的問題是：難道一定得在 C (Carbon) 和 Objective-C (Cocoa) 間做選擇？

我本來還真找不到什麼好的說法，結果意外在 survey Managed C++ 的時候，讀到這一段 Microsoft 的人寫於 2001 年的話，我笑了：

Unfortunately, as powerful and flexible as managed C++ is, it’s not the native language of .NET, which means that books, articles, courses, code samples, and so on, are not going to be written in managed C++—they’re going to be written in C#. But this should come as no surprise. C++ has never been the native language of any popular platform. Unix and Win32® have C. The Mac has Pascal. NeXT had Objective C (of all things). COM has Visual Basic. Only the BeOS has C++ as its native language, and when was the last time you wrote any BeOS code? The fact that .NET favors C# merely means that another language will be translated into the C++ equivalent, as has been done since 1983.

斜體是我加的。NeXT “had” Objective C. Now OS X has Objective-C. :)

lukhnos :: Jan.26.2007 :: tekhnologia 技術或者藝術 :: 2 Comments »