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- From: dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths)
- Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.113208.19916@prim>
- Organization: Primitive Software Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan5.082843.20911@news.media.mit.edu> <C0DJJ8.2HD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <23185@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:32:08 GMT
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- In article <23185@venera.isi.edu> woolf@isi.edu (Suzanne Woolf) writes:
- >But, agreed that this book isn't really for experts. It probably
- >doesn't have too much to say to someone with extensive experience
- >writing code in multiple languages, who already understands OOP and
- >GUI principles, and who can spend a lot of time reading the reference
- >documentation and writing code-experiments. But any of us
- >less-advanced folk can probably learn a lot from the book.
- >
-
- I'll buy the book if, after reading it, you have a clear idea of why the
- functionality of a Button is split between two classes (Button and
- ButtonCell) rather than one. The philosophy behind the appkit heirarchy is
- not well explained in the NeXT documentation.
-
- Dave Griffiths
-