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From: schneide@parc.xerox.com (Kris A. Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Neophyte looking for advice on programming tools
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Date: 4 Apr 91 18:58:06 GMT
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Hi folks,

After playing around a bit with my new IIsi (first Mac), I'd
like to get started with some programming.  Now, I've kinda
split the programming I'm interested in into two types:  Mac
specific application type stuff, and everything else.  At this
point, the "everything else" is programming for work and
school.  What follows are a couple of questions I've got
about getting started:

1)  Where's ResEdit?  Is it FTP-able or only BBS-able?  What's
the best reference doc for it?

2)  What are people's opinions of programming environments?
(Let's stick to C, but I'm also interested in other stuff like
Lisp.)  Maybe you can offer perspectives on how specific tools
do with both Mac-specific and generically portable code (i.e.
will a C application written under Think C compile and run
on a Sun?).  Basically, all I've heard about here is either
Think C or MPW.

3)  Never mind #3.  I was gonna ask about programming books...

Thanks for any help!

-Kris
schneide@arisia.xerox.com