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From: ewing@tramp.Colorado.EDU (EWING DAVID JAMES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need a review of THINK C 4.0
Message-ID: <13734@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 10 Nov 89 18:24:51 GMT
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In article <2127@se-sd.NCR.COM> jchiu@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jeff Chiu) writes:
>How about a comparison between TCL and MacApp:
>  E.g. the structure of their core classes - the basic building blocks
>  of Mac applications,  how similar are the two models?
>
>  Having played TCL a bit, I feel that it's not too hard to find
>  my way around the classes; but, does MacApp have a even simpler
>  model?  My only impression with MacApp was from a book at the
>  bookstore, which seemed to show a simplier diagram?

Hmm.  I will admit to not being a MacApp expert (or even intermediate user),
but it certainly doesn't seem simpler than TCL.  I have been using TCL for
a couple of months, and I like it a lot.  What ThinkC needs to add is a
class browser.  Actually, it would just need to make its Option-Double Click
feature work for class methods.  (Opt-Dbl Click does a search in the file
in which the symbol clicked on is defined.)  I am getting tired of doing
multi-file searches of method names to see what's what.

>Other interesting comparisons:
>  ...
>MPW C++ very slow, right?

In MPW's long tradition, I'm sure... :-)

>TC lacking "Makefile" is more annoying than before now that we have
>a lot of single-class files to deal with.  An improvment for project
>management is in order.

What do you want it to do?  I at least would like to see the ability add
compile time definitions (#defines) like you can do on the command lines
in MPW and Unix cc.  I'd also like a source code control system like MPW's
Projector (which I haven't had a chance to play with) or Unix's SCCS or RCS.
(Of course, I would expect a nice, ThinkC - like, user interface.)

>Which has better debugging environment?

ThinkC!  Although my experiences with SADE are very limited.  (They're
limited because I don't use MPW often because I don't like MPW very much. :=)

Dave Ewing
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