This thought-provoking post on /dev/why!?! argues that backward compatibility is the root cause of the new iPhone restrictions. The argument is summed up in this quote:
more ...I can think of incidents where Apple reverted OS changes, dumped new APIs, or was forced to committing massive engineering resources to something …
My assertion that the iPhone license phrase "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine" can only mean zero code generation has been questioned. Here's why I stand by that assessment (and consider the clause beyond the pale).
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more ...MMT: Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism in Dynamic Memory Management, Tiware et al. is worth reading if you are interested in systems-level performance programming. If you work in a managed environment, the briefly described lockless protocol for request-reply queues is worth noting.
This paper describes the use of a "Memory Management Thread …
more ...These are the new clauses:
I'm tempted to say that the clause is absurd and to talk about metaprogramming with C++ templates or JavaScript prototypes, but the fact is that it's …
more ...The most intriguing part of this Popular Science article on the creation of the iPad app "The Elements" is the all-too-brief mention of the creation of a higher-level Mathematica program to generate the pages:
more ...In about 7 of the precious 60 available days, I was able to create from scratch …
In certain circles, whatever interesting things there were in Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 unveiling today were overshadowed by some new language in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement:
more ...3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call …
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