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From: phaedrus@milton.acs.washington.edu (The Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Obligatory beginning-Mac-programmer questions
Summary: overwhelming response!
Message-ID: <2415@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 08:18:45 GMT
References: <2392@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: phaedrus@milton.acs.washington.edu (The Wanderer)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <2392@milton.acs.washington.edu> I asked a bunch of questions
about Macintosh programming books, development environments, and MacApp.
The response has been overwhelming; my mailbox overfloweth.  (But I like it,
I like it...)
      Aside from Inside Mac, Programmer's Introduction to the Mac Family,
and the other Addison-Wesley-published books, the Macintosh Revealed series
was recommended at least five times, so I plan on looking at it first, after
the Addison-Wesley series.  I figure this shouldn't take me more than four or
five months, after which I can get down to actually programming. :)
      The huge majority of those recommending language environments suggested
the THINK languages (with Pascal getting the preference over C, since the
Macintosh ROM was designed with Pascal conventions in mind); it appears to
outrank MPW in ease of learning and use (not surprising, considering the
command-line interface of MPW), debugging, documentation, and price.
      The consensus seems to be that THINK Pascal 3.0 handles MacApp
well enough; there are glitches, particularly in using the final version
(rather than the betas), but most repliers didn't seem to think that MacApp
was an appropriate learning tool anyway.  Besides, the consensus was that
Symantec would solve these glitches somehow, considering their reputation
for service.
      I thank you all very much for your help; it's relieving to see that
those of us who can't afford to become Partners can still get good-quality
technical help, from Apple as well as from others.



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