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From: jwp@utah-cs.UUCP (John W Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Ease of writing programs...
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 23:29:59 EST
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> Has anyone seen a COMPILER which performs the same 'ease of programming'
>  services... while still gaining the execution speed and independence of
>  a native mode program?

Translation: you want to have your cake, and eat it too.

About the best way I know of to go about this is to first get a "basic"
application running, such as a simple multi-window text editor.  Once
you get this sort of basic shell working (and as *clean* and bug free as
you can) developing stuff on top of it becomes relativly painless.  Relativly.

Apple is working on a fancy version of this (the "expandable application")
that is supposed to be very complete.   It's written with their object-Pascal.

I think the optimum though, would be something as fancy as Apple's two-Mac
debugger that knew about high-level languages.  (What I would give to have
Apollo's window debugger available in that environment...)