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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: C++ for the Mac
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Date: 13 Jul 89 00:21:21 GMT
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According to the 7/10/89 PCWEEK, Glockenspiel will be releasing CommonView and
a C++ compiler for the Macintosh "by the first week of December".

CommonView is a generic application, along the lines of MacApp (implements
windows, scrollbars, etc).  The major difference is that your CommonView
program can be "easily" (and legally) ported to other platforms.  Can anyone
contrast it with MacApp?

This brings the list of Macintosh C++ vaporware to three: Apple (available in
beta Real Soon Now, but under slooow MPW), Symantec/THINK (who knows when, but
presumably it will be fast), and now Glockenspiel (also runs under MPW?).

ObjectWorks (by ParcPlace) is being ported to "other platforms", and the
Macintosh seems like an obvious candidate.  Then again, at $2495 they might
not get much business!
 
 
Brian McElhinney
mce@tc.fluke.com