Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!edcogsci!rstark From: rstark@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Randall Stark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Think C or MPW? Keywords: C Message-ID: <1816@scott.ed.ac.uk> Date: 5 Sep 90 16:29:57 GMT References: <7071@milton.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: rstark@scott.UUCP (Randall Stark) Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK Lines: 16 Think C is a great environment, but it is not quite "industrial strength". If you are working on a one-person program, it is great. The problems come if you need to work on a multi-person project (with source control) or need to do things like automatic regression testing; Think C has no command line interface. If you *can* use Think C, you should; it is truely an amazing productivity environment! However, if you are producing a large software package, you will run into certain dead ends. Oh yea, and it uses a 16-bit inetger, while everyone else for the mac uses a 32-bit integer (thus pointers and integers are different sizes). Proper programming pracice should make this difference irrelevent, but people do sometimes bitch! -Randall Stark