Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@mpweiher @alexisgallagher Yes, I think that’s a interesting direction. People will use the toolbox if you provide a good one."

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Guy English ‏@gte May 24 Montréal, Québec

@mpweiher @jspahrsummers @mdiep Nobody can tell me how to do a responder chain without a giant switch nor how to load a XIB. The basics.
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Alastair Houghton ‏@al45tair May 25

@gte @mpweiher @jspahrsummers @mdiep …and similarly in MFC and ATL, there’s a “message map” dynamic dispatch mechanism done with macros.
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Guy English ‏@gte May 25 Montréal, Québec

@al45tair @mpweiher @jspahrsummers @mdiep To be clear: I don't bring things up because I want things to stay the same. I want improvements!
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Marcel Weiher ‏@mpweiher May 25

@gte @al45tair @jspahrsummers @mdiep Can’t stress this enough. Pretty much all of the dynamic stuff in ObjC is crap. It’s just tons better…
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Marcel Weiher ‏@mpweiher May 25

@gte @al45tair @jspahrsummers @mdiep …than not having it. So let’s not just find better alternatives for KVC, KVO, bindings, CoreData, …
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Marcel Weiher ‏@mpweiher May 25

@gte @al45tair @jspahrsummers @mdiep …, performSelector:, respondsToSelector:, etc. Let’s build better *facilities* that let us build …
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai May 25

@mpweiher I believe that’s the most important point. I want people to be able to explore these alternatives from outside the compiler.
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Alexis Gallagher ‏@alexisgallagher May 25

Watch yourself, @mjtsai. You are dangerously close to advocating for a lisp. Which we all know is crazy, right? Right? ;) @mpweiher
Marcel Weiher ‏@mpweiher May 25

@alexisgallagher @mjtsai Well, just like Smalltalk-72, LISP goes to language design a bit *too* quickly.https://www.quora.com/Where-did-we-go-wrong-Why-didnt-Common-Lisp-fix-the-world?share=1 …
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Marcel Weiher ‏@mpweiher May 25

@alexisgallagher @mjtsai So that’s one of the main thrusts of http://objective.st/ : a slightly more controlled metasystem than LISP/ST72

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@mpweiher @alexisgallagher Yes, I think that’s a interesting direction. People will use the toolbox if you provide a good one.

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