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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Programming Editor
Message-ID: <11123@claris.com>
Date: 14 Jul 90 17:14:28 GMT
References: <77021@cc.utah.edu> <14133@unix.SRI.COM>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes:
>>time, they act as though they'd never heard the complaint before. This 
>>is strange, as every THINK Pascal programmer I know personally has 
>>expressed the same irritation.

>There's one in every croud ...         :-)

>I happen to like THINK Pascal's  editor.

And I happen to dislike it (a lot).  I've discussed the editor with both
David Neal and John McEnerney (the authors) and they have explained the
interaction between the editor and compiler.  It would/will be a major
task to disengage them.  They acknowledge that the editor is either loved
or hated, depending on some indefinable set of personality characteristics.
As it is now, I can tolerate it although I grumble a lot while doing so and
even now, only use it during debugging/tweaking sessions.  Initial creation
takes place elsewhere (usually MPW).  Some of my friends love it.  The
compiler and the debugger are good enough to make its use tolerable and
the Symantec folk do respond -- some things just take longer than others or
have a lower priority.  As much as I dislike the editor, I appreciate the
importance that was placed on the 3.0 feature list (TCL, MacApp, multiple
segments in the same compilation unit, and the browser) -- I'll wait a while
longer for the editor changes and I'm sure that I'll love them when they
arrive.

-- 
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!