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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacTutor Magazine
Message-ID: <749@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Sep-86 10:58:23 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  6 10:58:23 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Sep-86 03:59:14 EDT
References: <843@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1161@murdu.OZ>
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Summary: Can you say "individuality?"

In article <1161@murdu.OZ>, stephenw@murdu.OZ (Stephen Withers) writes:
> In article <843@ssc-vax.UUCP> arlo@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jim Campiche) writes:
> >I'll admit, though, MacTudor is
> >very inconsistant - one C article is written with Consulaire C, 
> >the next article with Lightspeed or something.  Let's standardize
> >and stick with it, please!
> 
> Let's not! By using a variety of compilers, the magazine caters for a
> wider audience, and also gives the uncommitted some clues to the relative
> merits of the different products for their particular needs.

Besides, the real reason is that each author is an independent
contractor and only has whatever compiler he (there are no she's)
owns.  The only real way around this would be for TML or Think
or Aztec (etc.) to supply a free development system to each contributing
editor who writes about the corresponding topic.

For example, I couldn't use TML Pascal for the 9/86 article I wrote,
because at the time, I didn't have MDS, and the project required
some assembly language code.
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	Joel West			     MCI Mail: 282-8879
	Western Software Technology, POB 2733, Vista, CA  92083
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