In fact it is very possible to effectively bridge Perl and Cocoa objects
since Perl embeds very nicely in multi-threaded C based parents. Apple
provides (provided?) a fairly good bridge but it has some leaks & isn't
well maintained. There is also CamelBones as mentioned. I wrote my own that
has ful
On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Andres Kievsky wrote:
> I'm curious - isn't the fact that none of those languages support true
> multithreading a rather big hindrance when programming a Cocoa Application?
> How would you put together a responsive application without it?
Threading isn’t mandatory.
On 11/6/12, John Delacour wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 00:47, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
>> One compromise you might consider is using Ruby, which has pretty
>> decent integration with Cocoa. (Ditto for Python, but Ruby is more
>> Perl-esque.) It’s possible to write Cocoa apps entirely in those
>> languages.
>
On 07/11/2012, at 10:45 AM, John Delacour wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 00:47, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
>> One compromise you might consider is using Ruby, which has pretty
>> decent integration with Cocoa. (Ditto for Python, but Ruby is more
>> Perl-esque.) It’s possible to write Cocoa apps entirely in t
On 06/11/2012 00:47, Jens Alfke wrote:
One compromise you might consider is using Ruby, which has pretty
decent integration with Cocoa. (Ditto for Python, but Ruby is more
Perl-esque.) It’s possible to write Cocoa apps entirely in those
languages.
Thank you. The Ruby option does look rather
On Nov 5, 2012, at 2:59 PM, John Delacour wrote:
> I am interested in your comment that “this isn't usually a productive thing
> to do”, because I very soon have to decide whether to devote all my time to
> getting to grips with ObjC or continue dreaming that I can do most of the
> work in Pe
On 5 Nov 2012, at 2:59 PM, John Delacour wrote:
> [] hearing all the whoops and applause as the most elementary new things
> were unveiled and it was announced that a dictionary object could now finally
> be built in something approaching the sane way it would be done in ancient
> languages
On 05/11/2012 20:44, Fritz Anderson wrote:
On 4 Nov 2012, at 3:03 AM, John Delacour wrote:
... While I am getting up to speed with Obj-C I would like to be able to
include Perl routines within projects...
So long as you understand that this isn't usually a productive thing to do. It
may
On 4 Nov 2012, at 3:03 AM, John Delacour wrote:
> I am a rank beginner in Xcode and Objective-C, very slowly getting to grips
> with things using Xcode 4.5.1 in 10.8. My only significant experience is
> with AppleScript and Perl and, so far as AppleScript is concerned, it looks
> to me as tho
On 4 Nov 2012, at 1:03 AM, John Delacour wrote:
> Perl is another matter altogether. While I am getting up to speed with Obj-C
> I would like to be able to include Perl routines within projects, and I can
> find very little on the WWW to be guided by. So far I have experimented
> simply with
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