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you are modifying existing code, modifying it to use the Car-
bon libraries is often easier than rewriting it in Cocoa. On Mac
OS 9, Carbon is not a framework, although there are frame-
works that take advantage of it (such as PowerPlant and
MacApp). On Mac OS X, Carbon is a framework~in the sense
of that word in the Mac OS X environment (a bundle contain-
ing a shared library and all the headers needed to use it).You
need not write object-oriented code to take advantage of Car-
bon; in fact, you can write perfectly awful spaghetti-code circa
1970 to run against the Carbon libraries (although why you
would want to is unclear). ...