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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What's the best prototyping tool?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 18:15:37 GMT
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From article <1990Apr11.010338.23342@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, by anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony):
...
> I've heard of Prototyper and AppMaker...
> be honest, things didn't go well!  I would get system crashes, things
> disappearing etc.  I know there are newer versions: does anyone know if
> they are any better?+ How's AppMaker?
...
> Also, what exactly is MacApp?...
> And is the Think Class Library the same sort of thing?...
> waiting for my update...)
...
> I will be using Think Pascal 3.0...

MacApp is a single-inheritance class library that provides enough
"stuff" for a canonical Mac-ish application.  You need Apple's MPW
and either Object Pascal or C++ to use it.  It's been under development
by geniuses for something like 5 years.  (Stop blushing, Larry.)  There's
a MacApp Developer's Association (MADA) which has Apple's moral support
but is otherwise independent, that provides mutual comfort and assistance,
and sells add-on class libraries.

The Think Class Library (TCL) is a bit more modest, but basically the same
thing.  The resemblance is, well, pretty damned close.  It's noteworthy
that the Think extentions to C are scarcely C++, but are the moral
equivalent of the Object Pascal extentions to pascal.  I haven't seen
Think Pascal 3.0, but the TCL is billed as "the same," and I'd assume that
the language is (more or less) identical to Object pascal.  I'm sure Rich
will clarify if I've gotten it wrong...

I've had AppMaker 1.1 for a week or so (I've also used Prototyper 2.0).
It is, in a word, great.  But I'll post another article about that: this
program needs to be promoted!

=Ned Horvath=