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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Possible LSC improvements
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 15:23:03 EDT
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>	Maybe, but don't hold your breath. Mike has a long list of things
>that he wants to do, and C++ support is down near the bottom... LSC 3.0
>will be out in a while, and will have all kinds of goodies, but it's not
>likely to have C++ in it.

Um, this is a straight line I can't refuse. Now that you've piqued our
interest, what will LSC 3.0 have in it? Source level debugging? Have you
folks thought seriously about adopting TransSkel (by Paul Dubois) into the
standard LSC environment, or are you going all the way to MacApp
compatibility? 

C++ is nice, but I'm not sure it is THAT nice, unless you're an AT&T Unix
hacker. My personal preferences for future LSC enhancements are:

o give me the ability to take my TMON distribution floppies and feed them
	to my dog, something I would do happily if there were only a decent
	debugger for the Mac. (macNosy/Debugger doesn't count. If I wanted
	stuff at THAT low a level, I'd stick with Unix and ADB. I want
	something from THIS century, something that looks like it ought to
	exist on a Mac).

o MacApp or some kind of object oriented programming, so that that Mac and
	the compiler do most of the programming grunt work.  Hypercard is
	a GREAT example of how this works -- let IT worry about all thye
	structures and thigns, and let me click on the silly button...

Anyway, that's what I want. What are we going to get?

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach					chuq@sun.COM
Editor, OtherRealms					Delphi: CHUQ