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From: ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacApp
Summary: MacApp Pro
Message-ID: <50461@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 17:04:04 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.164542.23379@linus.mitre.org>
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC Company, Rochester, NY
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gmarzot@mbunix.mitre.org (G. Marzot) writes:
> A while ago someone made an announcement about MacApp being entirely 
> written in c++ now?

That was me.

> (this is a question)And something about all future support for macapp 
> being in c++.
> Is this true - whats the real scoop.  Thanks -GSM
> ps . I may have misread the post.

No, you did not misread the post but I may have jumped the gun.
MacApp has been rewritten in C++, however there is still no final
desision to drop support for Object pascal.  It seems that some
people THINK it is nessesary to keep it arround.

As to the new C++ MacAPP.  It is reported that the MacApp team
ported all of MacApp to C++ in *two* weeks.  Then they took three
more to shake out the bugs.  Imagin that five weeks from a non
portable unknown (outside of Apple) language, to a very popular
language that crosses many OS boundaries.

I have been told that they also added new string, point, and rect
classes, so now in C++ you can do nice things like rect1 = rect2 + rect3,
or myString = yourString.  Yes!

Pete