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From: anders@penguin (Anders Wallgren)
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Subject: Re: What's the best prototyping tool?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 15:33:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: marcos@netcom.UUCP (Marcos H. Woehrmann)

At the risk of sounding cynical, I have yet to find a better
prototyping tool than my trusty pencil and pad of graph paper...  The
problem with AppMaker/ProtoTyper, aside from their growing pains, is
the truth-maintenance problem - if you decide to tweak the code it
produces, you are screwed if you want to make additions or changes
with the prototyping tool - it doesn't know about the changes you've
made in the code, and when it spins off a new version of source for
you, you've got to incorporate it back into your customized version.
Too much hassle for me, anyway.

I've seen some signs that this issue is being addressed - change the
code, and your prototype changes to reflect the modification, and
vice-versa, but this was a on a DecStation, so I doubt there's
anything available on the Mac yet.

Until such a time, I do my prototyping in my head and on paper, and
then I use MacApp and ViewEdit, which usually gets the job done,
albeit slowly.

anders