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From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MPW vs. LightSpeed
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 12:34:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 12:34:42 1987
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| Thanks to the people who replied to my request for which was better,
| MPW or Lightspeed C/Pascal.  Most people who did reply preferred MPW
| because of the Unix like environment it provides.  Since I prefer a
| Mac-like interface to Unix-like, I have decided to stick with Lightspeed
| for the time being.  If I find I can't get anything done using it,
| I might consider getting MPW.

I have used both MPW and LSC.  You will certainly be able to get something
done with LSC, but you can get a lot more done in the same time with MPW, if
you use MacApp.

It is misleading to say that MPW is a Unix-like environment.  It does have
quite a few Unix-like tools and it has a powerful scripting language.  There
is a Make facility, similar to Unix.  Like Unix, on a dumb terminal, you can
type commands and their parameters on a line and execute them, if you wish.

But, there's another way to work in MPW.  MPW is a unified Mac environment
like LSC.  There's a menu bar and multiple editing windows.  You can
compile, link and run your program by selecting a menu item, just like LSC.
Unlike LSC, you can customize the menus yourself and you can add new tools
into the integrated environment.  As far as the user interface is concerned,
MPW is much more Mac-like than it is Unix-like (as most people know Unix)
and you can hide as much of the Unix-like stuff behind menus as you wish.

Duane
(dtw@cs.cmu.edu)