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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Questions about THINK C v4.0
Summary: Future Pascals will solve your needs...
Message-ID: <13365@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 00:14:19 GMT
References: <9878@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <194@dbase.UUCP> <2299@goanna.oz>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <2299@goanna.oz> pnm@goanna.oz (Paul BIG EARS Menon) writes:
>awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>...
>  Yes, I plead guilty to the above in a way.  On receiving the upgrade
>to LightSpeed (or ThinkSpeed) Pascal with object support but without full
>documentation (for object use, ie) or classes, I wanted to 'hang out' 
>till it arrived.  It's funny how many excuses we make about our tools - good
>thing we aren't carpenters, huh?  Think Pascal is a briliant package in its
>own right, and that's without a class library.
>
>  Why not use MacApp?  IMHO, MPW is no comparison to the Think environment.
>Wait for MacApp support from Think?  I am sure it will arrive, but since
>Rich Siegel is stonewalling on when this will occur (can't blame him), I
>intend to use Think C 4.0.  
>
        I agree with you that the support of Object Pascal in version 2.0 of
Think Pascal was more of a tasty tidbit of the future than a completely
workable environment as it came (this is NOT to say that what we got was not
useful, just not as useful as it could be!).  Symantec made the right decision
with the class library and Think C 4.0 and rumor has it that the class library
(or something similar) will come with the next version of Pascal. Also rumored
is MacApp support that many are asking for.  Between the cross compatible class
library (since you can interuse Think C and Think Pascal code, including the
object support) and the wonderful environments Symantec has a nice set of 
development environments.  
	Will the TCLs outplay MacApp, could be, but only the future will tell.
It might also be interesting to see some interaction of the two where my MacApp
classes and TCL classes could be interchanged.  Since Think Pascal uses Object
Pascal which is what MacApp uses, it would seem quite possible for this to
happen, but it would be REALLY neat...
	I would also like to see more propagation of TCL classes - MacApp has 
been around for a long time (back to the Lisa) but yet there have never been
any PD/Shareware OR commercial classes made available.  But the TCL just came
out and already at least one company has announced commerical TCL classes - now
for the PD/Shareware ones...



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