Irrational Exuberance

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I spent much of the day writing Mahou, which is the Japanese word for magic, and is now also a Yahoo! Boss Search Mashup Framework and Cappuccino (and Google App Engine, while we're at it) powered image search engine. It's a pretty interesting application, and even the least technical readers might enjoy playing around with it a bit.

You are responding to this comment written by anonymous on September 7th 2008, 11:14.

That isn't to say that its a bad experience, but programming in Objective-? rarely feels like a matter of ingenuity, instead it is a matter of correctly matching premade patterns to problems. Sometimes you jiggle the pattern a bit to make it fit correctly, but its rare to get particularly meta or to pull new tricks out of your bag

This is a rather astute point, I think. If that were all Obj-J brings to the table (it's not), I think it would be worth checking out, as traditional software development suits many project types. I have a few projects at work that need an application style web interface.

I'm not sure if you're planning on explaining some of the backend of this particular example, but I'd be interested if you end up working any more with the language.

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