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From: afoster@ogccse.ogc.edu (Allan Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: simple text interface [+ little bit of flame]
Message-ID: <4110@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 89 22:29:29 GMT
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In article <14780@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes:
>People have been answering that you have to rewrite TextEdit with some
>[...]
>So, now I've got this big chunk of code, but, being a single hacker,
>I can't possibly compete with apple's resources, and whoever makes
>MPW. Besides, I wrote my program as a private project, not for
>someone who was paying me. Working now with MPW, I'm amazed at the
>design and implementation errors that its creators made! I'm amassing
>a list of complaints which I shall eventually mail off to its creators.
>Besides, version 3 is damn full of BUGS! It's hanging for no good
>reason, quite often too. I've even found one completely reproducible
>bug, which I shall also mail to MPW's creators [hey, you guys reading this?]
>

Well OK.

I would be interested in discussing the errors made in the implementation.

Design errors are subjective and open for interpretation.  I would indeed have
liked the escape chars in MPW to be closer to those in UNIX but I can live
 with them as they are.

I use MPW on a daily basis and is running on my machine most all day.  I have
never had it hang on me , except one time when I was doing a link and 
one of the dumb virus utilities got in the way! Once I trashed that there
was no problem.  

I have tak3en UNIX utilities and ported them to run under MPW in under half an hour.
The exact case in point is a C format utility that needed only the addition
of the spinning cursor to make it really MPW friendy.  It ran first
compile by the way.  So as far as getting awk, sed and grep running, My
Mac Programmers WORKSHOP has all of those utils available as well as 
YACC and LEX, in the form of Bison and Flex. 

I agree with the need for a command line interface and MPW seems to suit
my needs for one.

Regards

All Foster
MicroPhone II Development Team


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