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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: OOP--What do you think?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 17:10:58 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <17229@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> A while ago, Keith said that no one who had
> used MacApp would ever go back to another way of programming.  After a
> year of using MacApp, I would certainly consider starting my next
> application from scratch instead.

After working around a number of people using MacApp, I've reached
one conclusion: some people love it, others hate it.  This isn't really
a big surprise since MacApp embodies a certain approach to programming
the Mac and this jives with some people's view and not with others.

You will do much better with MacApp if you "go with the flow."  I
knew one programmer who just didn't like the way MacApp did things
- it wasn't his way.  He fought it every step of the way and the
results were pretty sad.  It's not that he was a poor programmer -
far from it - he just didn't catch on to the MacApp way.

Personally, I love MacApp.  It provides me a very rich environment
for building my products.  It lets me leverage all the knowledge about
the Mac environment built into MacApp (check out how MacApp handles
file saving sometime :-) But then it fits in quite well with my
approach to programming.  I don't push MacApp to do things it doesn't 
"want to do," but rather I build upon it and let it handle its things 
its way.

My guess is that if you're one of those people who always though that
they could have built the Mac better than Apple did and are always
working around the standard behaviors, you may not like MacApp.  

-- michael

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