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From: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Advice for starting programmers...
Message-ID: <550@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 10:12:08 GMT
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In article <2206@saturn.ucsc.edu> usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu (Usenet News Account) writes:
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>From: gagaku@ucscd.UCSC.EDU (23527000)
>Path: ucscd.UCSC.EDU!gagaku
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>In article <526@psu-cs.UUCP> smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers) writes:
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>>Okay, this is the first of a series of replies pushing Prototyper.  I know
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>>Paul Smethers
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>I'd appreciate comparisons of this and related products, or pointers to 
>useful reviews (haven't seen any in the basic mags).  How to evaluate
>MacApp, MacExpress, Programmer's Extender, TransSkel--without actually
>trying them out? (Too expensive, & they don't accept returns!)
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MacTimes February-March 1988 (the current issue) has the first review on
Prototyper that is currently published. The summary paragraph of this
Four Apples review is:

	Should you run to get this product?  The answer is yes if you are
	thinking of designing any type of Macintosh application with a
	standard interface.  The time saved will be well worth the $125
	list price of this product.  -  Robert Forras

There will be reviews in the next month in each of MacTutor, MacWeek,
Macintosh Today, MacWorld, and (I think) MacUser.  Each of these reviews
have been taken on by Macintosh stars who love Prototyper.  David Smith
himself has told us that he loves it so much that he is going to write
the review himself, and do whatever he can to help us support the product
and get out the message.

Compared to MacApp, MacExpress, etc, Prototyper is an application, where
these other products are source code that has already been written and
can be modified for programming.  Prototyper can be used by a non-
programmer, while each of these other tools require an understanding of
programming, Inside Macintosh, and other skills.  These products may
actually work together with Prototyper, for it can be conceived that
Prototyper may generate code to one or more of these toolkits rather
than straight Macintosh toolkit code (but it does not currently).
Prototyper is a starting point for design, simulation, and code and
resource generation.  These kits are for simplifying the implementation
phase.

Paul Smethers
SmethersBarnes