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From: corwin@apple.UUCP (Someone Else)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac programmers shortage?
Message-ID: <6375@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 22:38:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 22:38:14 1987
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <616@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP (Root) writes:
>> Nat Goldhaber of Centram Inc. is quoted in the latest MacToday "attesting"
>> to the "difficulty I'm having hiring Mac programmers." On the other hand,
>> I have a publisher friend who says he is still being flooded with resumes.
>> 
>
>Maybe I'm missing the point, but what makes the Mac so difficult that it
>requires "Mac programmers".  Seems to me that anyone who has hacked on
>any "real" OS (e.g. Unix) should be able to handle the Mac with his/her tab
>key tied behind his back :-).
>
The thing that makes it difficult to program the mac is the user interface...
Apple decided that ALL programs should use the same user friendly interface.
This takes much work from the programmer.  For example, I wrote a program
for the mac recently for in house use.  I first wrote a version for a UNIX
environment... took me about three hours total.  I then converted it first
to a standard macintosh application (with movable windows, DA's, buttons,
etc), then to a DA.  Total time was about two weeks (although I did make 
several improvements in that time)  
Programming the mac properly requires that the programmer actually do some 
real work :-)

-cory


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