From: "Owen Hartnett" Subject: MacTechGroup Meeting May 5 Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:48 AM MacTechGrp Meeting May 5 2004 7-9PM Room 315 Bldg E51 MIT Sloan School (Cinco de Mayo) Peter Sichel: Chief Engineer and Founder of Sustainable Softworks, a developer of Macintosh networking software WHAT MAKES COCOA/OBJECTIVE-C SO EFFECTIVE Having been coerced to make the switch from PowerPlant/C++ to Cocoa/Objective-C, a funny thing happened: my code shrunk to about one third its former size and complexity. Though not immediately apparent, something about Cocoa/Objective-C makes it significantly more powerful for OO programming than C++. This talk will consider what some of those factors might be including categories, introspection, delegation, dynamic extension, and other benefits of a more mature framework. As you have probably noticed, we have moved to a new list server for the mail announcements. Information on this list server is at: Note: The room number is officially 395, but we often move to a room with a better projector, which has been room 315 for some time. So now I am just going to announce 315, if we're not in there, continue to the next rooms to the right until you find us. Failing all this, we will try to find a room on the first floor. You can get a map showing building E51 at The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. (Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the first Wednesday) You can get more information on the MacTechGrp (and currently out of date meeting information) at http://www.codewell.com/mactechgrp To contact the unindicted co-conspirators irresponsible for this group, email owen@ids.net or eric@slosser.net. *** Do you aspire to someday speak before the august MacTechGrp? Whether you're a new programmer or an old pro, you probably have something interesting you could tell the rest of the group. Fear not, your lucky day could be at hand, but slots are filling fast. Send an email to eric@slosser.net with your proposed topic.*** _______________________________________________ Mactechgroup-announce mailing list Mactechgroup-announce@lists.mactechgroup.org http://lists.mactechgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/mactechgroup-announce