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From: spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Portability of Mac Source
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 11:37:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 11 11:37:00 1985
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Thats really not fair. Apple did suppy a "Standard" development environment,
its called Lisa Pascal.  I'll admit that its not my favourite, but then a dozen
or so companies came out with other environments.  Apple did give us some thing
much more important, a standard user interface and a standard way to achieve it.

As for toolbox calling conventions, any maker of a "developement" environment 
who doesn't respect the calling conventions  set down in Inside Macintosh isn't 
worth buying from.  As far as I know, every language for the mac uses the
standard calling sequence, or in some instances a slight modification (e.g.,
Forth, and NEON) to account for quirks in the language. I happen to use Mac C 
from Consuliar, and I use all of the tooltraps the same way I would from Pascal....


			Dave Spector
			NYU/acf Systems Group
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