[linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

[Steve Harris]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 07:47:55 -0500, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that Apple adopted it just to be different/moderately 
> incompatible.  They like to trumpet
> OSX's Unix kernel, and the fact that Unix apps port to OSX pretty 
> easily, but the coding style and
> development tools and techniques they encourage seem to be  pretty un-Unix.
> OTOH, I certainly couldn't write Obj C code, but it doesn't seem to be 
> too hard to read if you're familiar
> with C and C++.

It doesn't really require any c++ familarity, its more like Smalltalk (a
"real" OO language).

Apple do have a history of Objective C, and they use gnu compiler IIRC, so
in theory porting OSX apps or writing linux.osc apps shouldn't be hard.

- Steve