cat jjgod >> log

Aaron Hillegass 的访谈中，他说：

It is true that some people have voiced the opinion that the iPhone SDK should have been based on languages other than Objective-C. However, it is important to note that none of these people have ever shipped an application written in Objective-C.

这固然是有道理的：倾向使用 Obj-C 以外其他语言来开发 Cocoa 应用的绝大部分人根本不了解 Obj-C (比如 John Grubber，充其量只能算是个 Perl 爱好者，还不能算程序员)。

但 Aaron 自己的视角何尝不也是带着偏见的呢？在他说下面这段话时：

It is difficult to explain how the NIB file (and a few other scary ideas) create leverage. It is that leverage that enables one guy in his basement to compete with a team of engineers at Microsoft or Adobe. It is like I showed a chain saw to a early American colonist, and he said, “Can I cut down the tree without starting the engine? I don’t like the noise. Maybe I can just bang it against the tree?”

不知道他自己有没有考虑过：他自己是否曾经尝试过用编码的方法 (Programmatically) 而不是用 Interface Builder 来构建一个完整的程序界面，如果没有，他又怎么能理解编码构建界面的优势呢？

我个人并不排斥 NIB，但关键的问题是，我相信一个完整的项目中每个元素的“可查找性 (grepability)”都是很重要的，如果能将所有的元素都用文本的方式表达，就大大方便了查找和更新，而不管是 NIB 还是 XIB，都做不到这一点。

所以说，要完全不带偏见，中立的评论一个东西，真是很难。