Apple hyping java...
Todd Blanchard
todd.blanchard at cacheon.com
Fri Mar 29 22:05:59 UTC 2002
Relax, its marketing.
Internally, Apple does everything in ObjectiveC. They view it as a sort
of secret weapon though. The Java stuff is to get the J-Heads over to
the Mac. Once there, I believe it is hoped they will look around at the
Cocoa stuff and maybe give it a whirl. If they do, they'll be hooked.
Also, in their defense, squeak is not a production platform.
Specifically, the UI kit is raw (not that swing is all that good) and
quirky. Squeak has a great deal of potential that I feel remains
untapped, primarily because its been a reasearch platform. People try
things, they learn things, maybe they clean some of it up, but mostly
they move on and try new things.
Oh yeah, Java SUCKS.
I am trying to see if I like bistro though...
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan B. Wessels [mailto:swessels at one.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:40 AM
To: Squeak mailing list
Subject: Apple hyping java...
Help me I'm going to puke...
>From the article at
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4425
"Apple views Java as being the technology that enables people to develop
and deploy applications across multiple platforms.
"We chose Java because we believe that no matter how big a company or
what kind of organization you are, you're going to have a heterogeneous
network with many different platforms sitting on it on many devices.
"Java is the leader in this space right now - in fact, it's probably the
only player in the space for providing a cross-platform technology. And
that's why Apple chose to support Java in OS X - because Apple believes
that Java is the glue binding all these systems together"
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