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From: philipc@runx.oz.au (Philip Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: News from the MacApp confrence.
Summary: C++ source only?
Keywords: C++ monumental effort
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.114742.12554@runx.oz.au>
Date: 8 Feb 91 11:47:42 GMT
References: <49769@cci632.UUCP>
Reply-To: philipc@runxtsa.runx.oz (Philip Craig)
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In article <49769@cci632.UUCP> ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch) writes:

>A friend of mine, Tom Myers, is at the confrence and he just
>sent me a link last night that will answer a few questions.
>
>MacApp 3.0 is expected to ship in May.

Amazing. That's ten times faster than MacApp 2.0 came out.

>
>They have decoupled the disk file handling from the TDocument
>object.  There is now a new file object.
>
>MacApp 3.0 has been completely ported over to C++ and the only
>source that will be distributed with the 3.0 release will be
>in C++.

What? Has anyone else heard this same thing? That seems like a monumental
amount of work, given that we haven't got a 2.0.1 or anything in C++
currently. And all this by May? Incredible.