With the release of MacOSX, Apple has engineered and released two new APIs: Carbon & Cocoa. Carbon is similar to MacOS 9 API and it can be programmed in C & C++. Carbon was created in order to give Macintosh developers an easy-to-walk "bridge" to easily port their MacOS applications to OSX. Through the CarbonLib, developers can now develop both MacOSX and MacOS9 applications with a single effort. Cocoa is the fully native MacOSX API; it gives access to more MacOSX-specific features and it can be programmed with Objective-C or Java. Apple, through O'Reilly, last year released two books, "Learning Carbon" and "Learning Cocoa".
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"can now develop both MacOSX and MacOS9 applications with a
single
effort."
"Cocoa is the fully native MacOSX API; it gives access to more MacOSX-specific features and it can be programmed with Objective-C or Java. Apple, through O'Reilly, last year released
two
books, "Learning Carbon" and "Learning Cocoa"."
hmm ok 
Is also available. with it you canb combine your legacy C++ code with Apples GUI/Rad tools which devilvers in Objective-C
Carbon and coca look nice... man... I wish I had a mac to play around with...
Hmm, anyone want to trade me a G4 with MacOS X for a 366 MHz PC? 
Good review btw!
But Carbon was been around for a while now, not just with the release of OS X.
IIRC, Carbon came about after Jobs came back. They cleaned up and distilled APIs from the old MacToolBox
This Oreilly books has disappoint me. Oreilly has always published the best books but those are short, incomplete and unfinished.
I wish Apple engineers soon publish a good serie of Inside Cocoa and Inside Carbon books.
