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From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: MacTutor Considered Harmful
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Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 10:23:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 25 10:23:00 1986
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Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!bhyde    Aug 25 10:23:00 1986


First lets not be too hard on MacTutor, here we have a group
of people trying to provide a useful service to people who
like to hack their Mac software.  If you multiply their distribution
times their subscription cost they are making a very very meager
living doing this, so it is surly and act of love at this point.

If those people that think they are professional about software
for the Mac don't even write letters to MacTutor, or articles, etc.
then how is going to become the resource we all need?  I agree 
that it is spotty, but it is the only publication in this area
and I'd rather have something here rather than nothing.

Second about this handle stuff?  I usually fack a handle in
my global data area.  It never occured to me that somebody who
uses the handle might decide that it was really a handle and
start treating it as such.  What a mess!  This means that every
place that the documentation says a things a handle I'll actually
have to allocate a real Handle from the memory manager and then
stuff it full of things to make it have the values I want in it.
If it is code then I'll have either make it a real code resource
or I'll have to "stuff a jsr into it."  (What a hack!)