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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Beginning Mac Programing
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Date: 26 Feb 88 00:09:24 GMT
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>Without IV, how do you learn to deal with HFS, SCSI, Zoom boxes, etc?
>Without V, how do you learn to deal with new TextEdit (and whatever
>else non-II or non-SE that was added if anything)?
>
>No, you don't >need< IV or V for a lot of stuff, but you won't be able
>to do things (easily) that you see other people doing -- not because
>you don't have the machine, but because you don't know how they work.

For a beginning programmer, all you need is SFGetFile. Why should a
beginning programmer touch SCSI? We're talking about a new programmer here.
Once they get their feet wet, they can pick up the missing volumes as they
find they need or want the information. I've STILL never needed SCSI
information, and I strongly avoid touching the file system at lower than the
SFGetFile level as much as possible. Why should I?

chuq