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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <12416@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 01:52:21 GMT
References: <4196@gmdzi.gmd.de> <1991Mar4.165247.12250@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <4203@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <4203@gmdzi.gmd.de> strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
>breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:
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>I checked the samples which come with the Windows SDK (system development
>kit). It includes a 280 line program which is a complete editor, and
>a 1200 line program which is an editor, which includes clipboard support, 
>file operations and printing. Supporting multiple documents is not necessary

>These programs are quite longish, because they are programmed in a procedural
>language (C), which doesn't allow to shorten code by inheriting usefull

You can write similar Mac programs (using the Mac Toolbox) in about the same
number of lines.  

The advantage of using an application framework (e.g., MacApp) is that the
framework will handle a lot of features for you.  You end up with more
features per line of code that you write, and the code ends up being easier
to maintain.


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