Charles B a __crit :

> Unfortunately most of your posts here over the past year exhibit nothing 
> more than you would expect from a Mac fanboy(/girl).

Maybe because, for the first time in around 20 years of using computers 
I am actually enjoying the experience, not fighting with an unreliable 
operating system.


Even when I do use Windows in a VM, it's so much more reassuring that I 
can revert the VM to a clean installation in less time than it takes to 
have lunch.


As for Mac development in Xcode, most Windows development environments 
really could learn a thing or two :-)


Don't forget that programming X-platform means you really should know 
what users on other platforms expect from a product. Mac users are 
notoriously fastidious and an in depth knowledge of how to design an 
acceptable Mac UI may well involve a bit more knowledge than simply 
hoping that a Windows designed UI will be acceptable.


How would anyone ever get to know about the underlying ObjectiveC and 
Cocoa libraries that Delphi X will need to access when third party 
components are not yet available without spending a lot of time learning?


How else would third party components get written if vendors don't 
understand the OS they are targetting if they don't get "down and dirty" 
with the target OSs and their APIs?


Joanna


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Joanna Carter [TeamB|http://www.teamb.com]
Consultant Software Engineer