[Ham-Mac] Cross-platform development of amateur radio applications: Mac OS X vs. Mac OS 9

[James Wagner]

For what its worth, Cocoa is not all that its cracked up to
be. Cocoa and Carbon, as far as I can tell, are just two
different sets of "operating system calls" (APIs in
programmer-speak). Neither is really complete. And, each is
incomplete in different ways. 

Its also fairly clear that Apple is moving Carbon and Cocoa
together so that over some period of time, they will be
essentially indistinguishable (in terms of capability).

Frankly, my programming medium of choice is RealBasic. It
uses Carbon and will compile for OSX, PPC, and Windows. You
talk about cross-platform! This does it quite well and you
need to know very little about the intricies of the
underlying operating systems.

The one area where RealBasic really does not do well is
high-speed manipulation of sound (ie, PSK31) with DSP-like
operations. 'Tis a pity!

Jim, KA7EHK
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