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Re: known limitations of REALbasic?

To: REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: known limitations of REALbasic?
From: Asher Dunn <asher at fireyesoftware dot com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:09:21 -0400
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On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:

Obj-C Minus points:
Bad memory Management
Syntax

RB Plus points:
Setter methods
Stronger typing, and type checking
Stronger checking all over, in fact! For example, RB checks interface compliancy.
Constructor arguments
The language makes normally hard things, easy. (even for loops are easier to write)

Those are all a matter of opinion. You are entitled to your opinion, but don't state it as fact.

Setter methods add unnecessary confusion to the language, and ObjC syntax is actually rather nice. Strong typing removes a lot of flexibility that ObjC has, and you can perfectly well pass parameters to the -init function of an object in ObjC.

Just playing devil's advocate here :-)

-- Asher

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