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From: carlile@trwrb.UUCP (Donald E. Carlile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: NEON Caveat (was Re: Advice for starting programmers...)
Message-ID: <5050@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 00:18:22 GMT
References: <42507@sun.uucp> <23091@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <42814@sun.uucp> <940@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: carlile@trwrb.dsd.trw.com.UUCP (Donald E. Carlile)
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In article <940@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies) writes:
>...
>...NEON is also a Forth-based
>object oriented language mentioned in the book "Object-Oriented Programming
>for the Mac" by Schmucker (Hayden). 

I got suckered into NEON about 3 years ago.  I don't recommend it.  I flailed
around for quite some time, and didn't really get anywhere.  I got a hold of
MacApp and coded up the same app very quickly.  And it was double clickable
without extra files to make invisible.  

I know that this topic was for beginners, and MPW and MacApp cost more than
beginners want to pay, but I wanted to steer beginners away from what looks
to me to be a dead end street.

Anyone who disagrees with me is welcome to buy my copy of NEON.

DISCLAIMER:  My opinions are my own, and are not necessarily shared by my 
employer.

Additional disclaimer:  It has been a while since I had anything to do with
NEON, and it **MAY** have improved.

Don Carlile