Steve Jobs interviewed just before returning to Apple

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Acer wrote:
I may be showing my ignorance, but did that object-oriented software concept ever really pan out in real life? I know Next got rolled into OS X, but was the object thing part of it?

Many well known programming languages are object-oriented or incorporate object-oriented features:

C++
C#
Java
Objective C (the primary programming language of Mac OS X and iOS)
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obj..._languages

[Will Collier]

That might be the last time the Leader actually wore a tie (not to be construed as a criticism)...

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Acer wrote:
I may be showing my ignorance, but did that object-oriented software concept ever really pan out in real life? I know Next got rolled into OS X, but was the object thing part of it?

Oh YEAH. It's ALL object oriented these days. About the only programming that isn't OOP is real time, and even that is getting that way.

Think of it this way... you can write ten thousand lines of code to do advanced statistics, or you can just type Meta.Numerics (or equivalent).

What do you think a smart programmer will do ? :biggrin:

[Acer]

In a related vein, here's Rolling Stone's interview of Steve Jobs, 1994

http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/job.../jobs.html

Tidbit, germane to my earlier question:

Of course, this being Silicon Valley, there is always a new revolution to hype. And to hear it coming from Jobs -- Mr. Revolution himself -- is bound to raise some eyebrows. "Steve is a little like the boy who cried wolf," says Robert Cringely, a columnist at Info World, a PC industry newsweekly. "He has cried revolution one too many times. People still listen to him, but now they're more skeptical." And even if object-oriented software does take off, Jobs may very well end up a minor figure rather than the flag-waving leader of the pack he clearly sees himself as.

There are those who lead, those who follow, and then there are columnists...

[SteveO]

Acer wrote:
In a related vein, here's Rolling Stone's interview of Steve Jobs, 1994

http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/job.../jobs.html

Tidbit, germane to my earlier question:

Of course, this being Silicon Valley, there is always a new revolution to hype. And to hear it coming from Jobs -- Mr. Revolution himself -- is bound to raise some eyebrows. "Steve is a little like the boy who cried wolf," says Robert Cringely, a columnist at Info World, a PC industry newsweekly. "He has cried revolution one too many times. People still listen to him, but now they're more skeptical." And even if object-oriented software does take off, Jobs may very well end up a minor figure rather than the flag-waving leader of the pack he clearly sees himself as.

There are those who lead, those who follow, and then there are columnists...

HA! Wow. Cringely. What a doof.