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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT Mach (was Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
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Date: 22 Oct 90 21:35:53 GMT
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In article <21288@well.sf.ca.us>, loca@well.sf.ca.us (John Hoag) writes:
|> > With Think C or MPW 2.02, it isn't hard at all.
|> 
|> ...once you've written a few hundred lines of environment-handling code
|> in preparation for printing "Hello World."  
The Mac may be a lot more difficult to program than it needs to be, but let's
stick to the facts. I don't know about Think C or MPW, but this statement
implies that there is no way of writing trivial programs on the Mac. In THINK
Pascal, you can use ordinary ANSI-Pascal IO. Here's your "Hello World"
program:

program hello;
begin
  showtext;
  writeln('hello world');
end.

(you may want to add a readln to the end to stop the window disappearing until
RETURN is typed). And you _do not_ have to write hundresd of lines to do the
same in a dialog box. Of course, once you get into non-trivial programs, things
aren't too pretty.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu