书名:Cocoa与Objective-C:构建与运行(影印版)
国内出版社:东南大学出版社
出版时间:2010年12月
页数:396
书号:978-7-5641-2413-7
原版书出版商:O'Reilly Media
Scott Stevenson
Scott Stevenson已经从事Cocoa应用程序开发8年,并且从事相关的教学工作6年。他创建了广受欢迎的Mac编程博客Theocacao,并且从2003年开始负责Cocoa Dev Central,并已成为其主要作者和编辑。他组织并出席了许多Silicon Valley CocoaHeads会议。Scott生活在San Francisco Bay Area。
The animal on the cover of Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running is a Pampas cat
(Leopardus pajeros). Named for the Pampas region of South America, the Pampas cat
is relatively small for a wild cat and resembles domestic cats in size and stature: adults
grow to only about two feet high and weigh between three and four kilograms. Individuals
display varying combinations of stripes and spots on their coats, and vary in
color depending on geographical location; dominant colors include grey, yellowbrown,
rust, and black.
The Pampas cat exists only in western central South America, but enjoys a wide
distribution therein. The species has shown that it can thrive not only in the open
grasslands with which it is most often associated, but also in the woodlands of Gran
Chaco and central Brazil, the low-lying swampy areas of Uruguay, the semiarid desert
of Patagonia, and the elevations of the Andes. In fact, the only significant South American
habitat in which it cannot be found is the rain forest, either temperate or tropical.
Scientific classification for the Pampas cat has become a complicated issue over the past
two decades. Formerly, the Pampas cat was considered only a subspecies of the Colocolo
(Leopardus colocolo), which itself previously belonged to the separate, now defunct
genus Oncifelis. The Pampas cat was distinguished as its own species in 2005, along
with the Pantanal cat (Leopardus braccatus), but taxonomists still disagree about
whether there is enough biological difference to validate the move. Despite their wide
range, relatively few specimens are captured for genetic testing.