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Aug 13 2009

Xcode Templates

Joe Conway

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Aaron Hillegass’ last post on initializers for UIViewController was spot-on. In fact, when you come to our iPhone Bootcamp, you’ll learn all about it.

However, the extra typing every time we create a file is a nuisance. When you create a subclass of a UIViewController, chances are you really want to get to work on the important stuff.…

Dec 14 2008

Syntax Matters

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One of my coworkers, Scott, recently pointed me towards Jacob Kaplan–Moss’s comments on programming languages and thought. In “Syntactic Sugar”, Jacob addresses the canard that “all Turing complete language differ solely on syntactic sugar.” He first concedes that this is technically true, in terms of reduction to machine instructions and register manipulation.…