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From: joe@gistdev.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Prototyper
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Date: 24 Jul 89 15:25:00 GMT
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Nf-From: gistdev.UUCP!joe    Jul 24 10:25:00 1989


I have used Prototyper (2.0) on both a Plus and a IIcx.  While I read the review
in MacGuide, I'm afraid I can't agree with it.  I found Prototyper very buggy,
hard to use, and it often didn't seem to do what I want.  I agree with a
previous poster that the code it generates is quite cryptic, so I'm not sure
that the MacGuide assertion that it is "a useful learning tool" for learning
Mac programming is at all true.

Since the first thing I did in Prototyper caused a system bomb (not in the
code it generated -- in Prototyper itself), I have had nothing but trouble
with it.  A recent free upgrade acknowledged problems with the quality of the
2.0 version, but I have not found the patch to be a significant improvement.

Protoyper may be useful in some limited applications, but I'm afraid I can't
recommend it, either.

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