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From: Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.mmug.edgar.mn.org (Jim Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme
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Date: 13 Feb 91 20:58:12 GMT
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Mike Berger writes in a message to All

MB> I agree with some of the points you've made in your posting, 
MB> but I couldn't let this pass. What's the difference whether your 
MB> GUI support library is in ROM or RAM? In fact, most of the complaints 
MB> I hear about programming the Mac involve the complexity of the 
MB> ROM calls. Fortunately, the better compilers isolate the programmer 
MB> from that... just like in the PC family. 

The difference is that it runs faster and is absolutely uniform.  Also, because every machine has it, a programmer is nuts if he or she doesn't use it.

No compiler can isolate the programmer from what is considered complicated about the Mac ROM calls (they are called just like any other procedure and in fact parts of the Toolbox are in RAM, not ROM; the difference is largely transparent to the programmer.)  The only thing complicated about the Toolbox is that it is large which puts a burden on the programmer to know a lot going in.  As I said, no compiler can take care of that for you.
 
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