Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!brunix!omh From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: AppMaker Message-ID: <61957@brunix.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 91 02:41:45 GMT References: Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) Distribution: comp Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 31 In article twl@cs.brown.edu (Ted "Theodore" W. Leung) writes: >Hi.... > I've been reading in this group and in comp.sys.mac.digest about a >tool called AppMaker, which is supposedly similar to Prototyper. Can >some tell me who manufactures it, and why it is preferable to >Prototyper? > AppMaker is from Bowers development Corp., PO Box 9, Lincoln Center, MA 01773 (508) 369-8175. The author's name is Spec Bowers, who, more often than not, can be found at the Boston Computer Society's MacTechGrp meetings. I believe that AppMaker is better than Prototyper because 1) excellent code output (AppMaker's code is excellent all the way through - it's also great for someone who's just learning Mac Programming because you can look at a problem and see how AppMaker coded it) and 2) AppMaker supports the Think Class libraries - this is an excellent way to bootstrap yourself into the TCL's and 3) AppMaker will have MacApp code production very soon. Claimer: I have not seen the newest version of Prototyper, but the 1st version's code was pretty bad. Also, I know Spec Bowers through the MacTechGrp, of which I am the director, but, I won't make a dime whether you buy AppMaker or not. -Owen Owen Hartnett omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET Brown University Computer Science omh@cs.brown.edu uunet!brunix!omh "Don't wait up for me tonight because I won't be home for a month."