Re: Project Center inspiration sshots

[Markus Hitter]

Am 03.01.2005 um 11:55 schrieb Björn Giesler:

[a chart about some programming environment]

Björn,

perhaps it's because I'm not a software scientist but a hobbyist 
programmer, but I don't understand your chart at all. The idea about a 
chart based code editor sounds very interesting, however.

I did some Cocoa projects successfully and have some average knowledge 
about procedural and object oriented programming, so I'll put my $ 0.02 
here as a measure for your ideas on how easy to understand they are.

Do you have a link where you have this chart from?

If you made it yourself, ...

- Why is "Date & Time" in such a prominent place. I can't remember any 
situation where the current time has an affect in the resulting binary. 
Except for the build system, of course, but this should be done 100 % 
automatically anyways.

- The arrwos from "Class" and "Metaclass" ... looks like you have 
something like multiple inheritance in mind. This is discouraged in 
OpenStep/Cocoa.

- "Metaclass" = super class? There is no mention about something "meta" 
in the whole Cocoa documentation (as of Xcode 1.2).

- What's the difference between "Filing" and "File System". Why has the 
coder to care about code storage at all (other than a "open 
project"/"close project")?

- All I know about OOP says, an object is an instance of a class. So, 
objects don't have methods. Classes have. Do you collect instance 
methods in the "Object" box while class methods go elsewhere? Is there 
some other point of view?


Thanks for your comments,
Markus

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