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15-Mar-2006

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Fundamentals of Cocoa

Cesar Tardaguila in design-nation.blog/es posts a link to the Cocoa Fundamentals Guide, required reading for anyone interested in Cocoa.



Alan Kay: The most important things about OOP are not the objects

Diego Gómez Deck in Blog de Diego Gómez Deck posts a link to a post by Alan Kay written in 1998, AlanKayOOP, in which he asserts that Smalltalk is not only NOT its syntax or the class library: the kernel of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about “messaging”.



Libraries or Frameworks?

mig21 in Yet Another Programming Weblog posts a link to Library or Framework?, a short but intense post by Guido van Rossum which re-opens the debate on this thorny subject. Frameworks are just an application with hooks. A library is much more: there, you need to start with requirements, abstractions and attempt at a minimal API that addresses the maximal set of requirements.



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