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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting started in Mac programming...
Keywords: Make, MPW, LSC
Message-ID: <2910@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 08:19:21 GMT
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In article <2698@cadnetix.COM> pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) writes:
>	Now, If I were developing Mac software here at work, I'd still
>be unsatisfied with MPW because the Mac OS is unlikely to ever support
>NFS and rpc.  I'd be wanting to use A/UX.

  By rpc, do you mean Remote Procedure Calls.  Because I just happened to work
on a project that does just that for the Macintosh.  Allowing a MainFrame
programmer to Make presentation calls to the Macintosh.  There is support for
that, although not as standard as Unix is {I think}.  AppleTalk has a 
variety of protocols which would be appropriate for RPC between machines
on the network.

  But the Mac already does support NFS.  Tops will mount NFS volumes in a
Macintosh enviroment and make them availible through standard OS calls on the
Mac.  In addtion Appletalk also has it's own rather standard and powerful
Network file protocol.   In addition as someone on the net metioned LSC's
make feature is nice, until you decide to do something else.  The speed is
nice, but I want services for my development enviroment.  I used to feel the
same way about MPW vs. the faster enviroments.  But when I started using
MPW and found the power of the enviroment, all others dropped our of existance.
I also enjoy being able to choose which language would best solve the problem.
And letting the linker figure out how to bring it all together.

>application set where makefiles and object files would really help I
>might get MPW, but for "the rest of the rest of us" I think LSC is
>better.

  Yes LSC is better for the rest of us.  But if you really want simply try
an interpreted language, or even HyperCard.  Learning the program the Mac is
no cheap affair.  By the time you buy the first three volumns the cost of a
development system really doesn't matter.  Face it programming the Mac isn't
cheap.  So if you're going to spend the money, might as well get something you
can grow into, rather than out of.

-- 
David M. O'Rourke

Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!