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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting started in Mac programming...
Message-ID: <2729@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 04:05:44 GMT
References: <1911@rayssdb.ray.com> <2586@polyslo.UUCP> <321@piring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <321@piring.cwi.nl> guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>I'd like to make a comparison between LightspeedC (LSC) and MPW.

  Continues on with an EXCELLENT comparison of LSC vs. MPW.  One of the
best I've seen, listed some things I've never seen before.

>As far as I know, neither system has much debugging support beyonde
>generating symbols for Macsbug.

  I think one of the RUMORED features of MPW 3.0 will be souce level debugging.

  The one thing Mr. van Rossum leaves out is the fact that MPW supports more
than just C, although C is the choice of many programmers there are other
languages, and MPW supports most of them.  Also I've found MPW to be quite
useable on a 2 meg machine with a 20meg harddisk.  And you can't deny the
power of it's Unix style shell and the ability to add tools to the shell
just like in Unix.

   Although LSC is fast, MPW is complete.

   I have also heard
rumors that many of the Macintosh compiler companies are planning versions
of there compilers to run under MPW, so you not only have a choice of languages
you *MIGHT* soon have a choice of who's compiler you can use.  This has 
already happend in the Modula Market, so why not Pascal, C, ect..

   Both enviroments are very good, but I've gotten used to MPW and now I
find it difficult to use anything else, what no shell scripts?  Where are
my shell variables, where are the user defined menus, no make facility, my
god are we working in the stone ages here?

 
David M. O'Rourke

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