Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!pogo!jonh
From: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: THINK and other C
Message-ID: <11070@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 91 01:16:37 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.135502.4709@bmers95.bnr.ca>
Reply-To: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
Lines: 38

I just bought a Mac IIcx.  Unlike my UNIX box, it didn't come with a C
compiler and six zillion utilities. :^)  I've already collected five
zillion PD and freeware utilities, and I'm ready for a language. :v)

I'm not going to be developing Microsoft Word or PageMaker, just programming
for myself.  I've seen Think Pascal at school, and I like the interface.
I've talked with one person about compilers; now I'd like to get as much
input as I can.

- What's available?  I've heard of Think C and MPW. (Apple's developer
	package, right?)

- How about documentation?  Library reference?

- Will X compiler allow me to generate whatever sort of code I want, such
	as applications, control panels, inits... ?

- Does X compiler come with an assembler I can get to or use inline?  I
	know a bit of 68K assembly that I'd like to use.

- What's the best way to get comfortable with programming for a Mac
	environment?  What books are good?

- What's the best mac environment reference?  Inside Macintosh seems to
	be the name equivalent to scripture.

Thanks for any input you can give me.  To help clarify, my use of the
assembler will be for doing my own projects.   Probably a lot of QuickDraw
graphics, floating point number stuff (this is starting to smell like
fractals and 3-D graphics, huh? :^), general hacking around.

aTdHvAaNnKcSe!
	--Jon
-- 
            jonh@pogo.wv.tek.com | moc.ket.vw.ogop.hnoj
Jon              6417 Sorrel Way | yaW lerroS 7146              noJ
Howell      West Linn, OR  97068 | 86079  RO, nniL tseW      llewoH
                    503/657-7964 | 4697-756\305