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From: cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think C / Documentation
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.101313.25766@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 90 10:13:13 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.161941.8062@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <1990Nov8.161941.8062@watcsc.waterloo.edu> negandh@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Neil Negandhi) writes:
>I am thinking of purchasing Think C V4.0 but before I do, a few questions:
>
>I plan to run it on a 1 meg Mac+.  Is this sufficient for the programming
>environment?
>
>How complete is the documentation that comes with it?  I looked in my local
>bookstore and purchasing IM Vol 1-5 would set me back another ~$175.
>Is there an alternative to purchasing the whole set?  I just want to develop
>some single-user applications and I am familiar with ANSI C. 
>
>Are there any programming tools that I should buy with Think C?
>
>Thank you for your time.
>
>Neil Negandhi
>nnegandh@watcsc.waterloo.edu

Think C 4.02 is great. It just about runs on a 1Mb Mac+, but not the source
debugger which needs to run under Multifinder. Anyway you have little choice -
I'd recommend it as your best option.

The documentation is fine for writing simple UNIX-style command line programs.
If you want to write Native Mac style programs you ALWAYS need IM 1-5. No way
round it. They're so complete (and definitive - ie. from Apple) that no one
has ever tried to write an alternative. However, Macintosh Revealed may be 
useful as a suppliment. IM can be a bit cryptic.

Think C has all you need. Built in assembler. Even comes with Macsbug (I think)

Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@cs.stanford.edu)