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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Subtantiatng my criticism (was: simple text interface)
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Date: 4 Aug 89 13:32:34 GMT
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>In article <1478dartvax.Dartmou.EDU>, ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halber
stadt) writes:

[Lots of stuff about why MPW isn't as good as UNIX]

Funny, but I've never seen Apple tote MPW as a UNIX replacement.
One of the reasons it's called Macintosh Programmers Workshop
instead of MPUnix.  I really wasn't convinced by any of your
arguments.  Sure, it may have some bugs.  Sure, some of their
tools aren't as powerful as UNIX.  Sure it doesn't have have
of the nice features of c-shell.

But, no one ever claimed that they did.  There are hundreds
of people (I wish I was, but I don't have the $$$) who use
MPW every day and are quite happy with it.  I'm sure that almost
all of them could make some suggestions on how to improve it,
but I think your earth-shaking flames really didn't shed much
more light than a match...

Then again, these are only my opinions.

Ken


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