Roughly Drafted has a review of my WWDC session up

Hi Kevin - I actually came by your site via RD. I think he suffers slightly from tunnel vision on occasion (and I say that as very much a Mac fan), but after you accept the bias, his articles are generally well researched and composed.

The reason for responding however was more congratulatory - and aimed directly at your good self. It's encouraging in these days of mindless adherence to one company or another to see unbiased geeky (in a good way :-) commentary on both .net and .mac topics. Forgive me the artistic licence to make the sentence work :-)

I have to say (as fundamentally a unix person, coming to the Mac only after OSX came on the scene) that I've taken more interest in C# since starting to read your blog. Don't get me wrong here - I think ObjC strikes the complexity sweet-spot, and it's definitely my language of choice, but I now find I have the same sort of academic interest in C# that I perceive you investing in ObjC. That's probably going to make me a better coder, and I thank you for providing the instigation.

I've coded in C, C++, ObjC, Java, just about every scripting language. I've contributed to the Linux kernel and GCC, I've designed and implemented my own CPU in verilog, then written an assembler and C compiler for it. I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet, just establish that I know somewhat of what I speak, and ObjC (v2 of course) remains pretty much the most flexible and easiest truly OOP language I've ever used. It's a real shame that C++ stole all its thunder - perhaps it was down to branding... the expression "C++" appeals to the coder in me :-)

Anyway, I just wanted to encourage you to continue to explore the dissonance and resonance between C# and ObjC and their respective environments. I find it truly fascinating to see how others tread the same path as I ...

Thanks for the encouragement Simon... Some days the task of looking at all this stuff from as many varied viewpoints as possible seems daunting. I'm glad someone out there appreciates the perspective :)

Hi Kevin, Will you be willing/able to post your WWDC slides after Leopard ships? Do you have any small but interesting applications written with both .net and cocoa that you could post for comparison purposes? Thanks, Jamie

Jamie - I'm not sure if they're going to let me post the slides, but once Leopard ships I will be free to discuss the content of each slide in a blog post (which I intend to do). I also am not allowed to release the code for the presentation that I did, but I do have an application that I will be able to release once Leopard ships. Also, there are other things in the works right now that you might enjoy...stay tuned!

I wish I hadn't ignored the speakers list. If I had know of this presentation, I would have attended as it is a subject I am very much interested in.

My company is about to embark on reengineering our flagship application for both Mac and Windows, and we are going to have to learn how match up .NET features to cocoa features. Its going to be an interesting journey to try to build a cross platform codebase on two fairly dissimilar platforms.

-James

James.. can you contact me? I've got a couple things I would like to run by you