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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Mach (was Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
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Date: 23 Oct 90 14:20:08 GMT
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In article <1990Oct22.213553.20022@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
 
>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.

Let's stick to the facts.  This program only works in the THINK Pascal
environment.  If you want to compile it as a stand-alone program,
things get a couple orders of magnitude more difficult.  (I haven't
upgraded to 3.0 yet, things may have improved...slightly.)

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