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Yeah, but that's not very interesting, so I don't include it :) You can do big complex apps in dynamic languages though. But iPhone is a somewhat restricted en
by tumult 17y ago
Yeah, but that's not very interesting, so I don't include it :)
You can do big complex apps in dynamic languages though. But iPhone is a somewhat restricted environment (not THAT restricted, really) where you are encouraged to use as small a footprint as reasonably possible.
- davidw 17y ago> Yeah, but that's not very interesting, so I don't include it :) Stuff like PHP indicates that plenty of people are quite happy to do quick one off's. Or Tcl/Tk for Unix, or VB for Windows. Scripting is a very sensible idea, and phones are quite capable of handling it these days. I think it's extremely interesting creating something that opens up development to more people.
- tumult 17y agoThe ends and the means are not necessarily the same thing! I would rather teach a new programmer Scheme, Python, Ruby etc than PHP, VB, etc.
- davidw 17y agoSure, those languages are better, but the point is making programming more accessible to more people (something Python has done quite well too, indeed).