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From: tim@chaos.math.uakron.edu (Timothy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: My impressions of Actor 3.0
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Date: 3 Jul 90 17:04:11 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@chaos.math.uakron.edu (Timothy Smith)
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I just received actor 3.0 from the WhiteWater Group... And have started
to use it
for small programs.. The speed of the code seems very good.. The documentation 
that came with my "Acedemic version"  consists of two paper backs.. I
would have
prefered 3-ring  binders..  From what people were saying about actor I
thought you
could create stand-alone applications using actor... They were wrong..
you cannot
You must either have the windows developers kit or BUY another product from 
WhiteWater... for $195.. :-(  So the total cost (list) of using this product
turns out to be 695.00 (actor) + 195.00 (Addon kit) == too much money.. 
I would
suggest that anyone wanting to develope real applications for windows buy
the microsoft developers kit.. much cheaper compared to actor.. Althought 
Actor is quite good at prototyping applications.. and seems like a well rounded
package.. 


tim smith
tim@chaos.math.uakron.edu


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