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Can you tell me why the design of Cocoa is stupid? I'm not disagreeing with you - going through the hoops required to play more than 5s of sound on the iPhone is a pretty crap way to spend an evening.

Interface Builder is flawed - but perhaps I haven't used it enough to appreciate its strengths.

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Sure. Here's the execution tree necessary to "Hello World" in Cocoa---at least as given in the Apple tutorial I followed. It's possible to cut it down, but only after you've digested all of the material Apple lays in front of you.

  main()
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  -> UIApplicationMain()
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    -> Info.plist (Never referenced by name!)
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       -> MainWindow.xib (Interface Builder. Contains no code!)
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          -> HelloWorldAppDelegate .h/.m (Not clearly indicated)
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            -> didFinishLaunching()
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              -> IBOutlet UIWindow *window
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              -> *myViewController
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              -> ControllerView (IB Nib, needs dragged connection)
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              -> Etc.
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              -> HelloWorld ?

Ok, that was easy. Now, why design patterns in general are stupid? Do you mean that all|some|few of them are stupid, or that the very idea of having design patterns is stupid?

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