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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Possible LSC improvements
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 21:57:04 EDT
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In article <30912@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>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

	The official line (quoted from Mike Kahl) is that "we are morally
committed to providing symbolic debugging for LightspeedC."

>folks thought seriously about adopting TransSkel (by Paul Dubois) into the
>standard LSC environment, or are you going all the way to MacApp
>compatibility? 

	I honestly don't know the answer to that question. As I said,
object orientation is of low priority compared to things like revisions
to the code generations, MultiFinder compatibility, and a debugger.

>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

		This will happen.

>	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).

		My sentiments exactly, and I've never heard it said better.

>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...

	As I said, possible but not likely in the next release.

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

	I don't know exactly what to promise, because I'm not familiar with
the plans for the product. (Besides, I'm covered by a confidentiality
agreement.) You can expect the obvious things, like a debugger and MultiFinder
compatibility, however...

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

		--Rich


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