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From: mnkonar@srcsip.UUCP (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTutor gripe!!!
Summary: Whoa there
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Date: 19 Jul 88 14:29:27 GMT
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>> Is anyone besides me getting frustrated at the lack of LSC (or at least
>> MPW C) examples in MacTutor?  
>> 
>> The last 2 (or was it 3?) issue haven't had any C articles!!!  
>> Isn't C the language of the 80's, as well as the most popular
>> Mac programming language?
>> 

>I agree completely!!!  I was thinking just this thought this weekend when I
>got my latest copy.  Yea, if I were a MAC guru, I'd be able to extract
handy
>tips from the FORTH, ASM and BASIC examples, but I thought I was using the
>"standard" programming language - LSC!!!!.  I'm writing to MacTutor today!

>I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to read FORTH Code any more!!!!!

Whoa, there!  There was a really nice article a couple of issues back on
implementing floating palettes (ala Hypercard, MacPaint 2.
0) that was ENTIRELY IN C! (Available on MacTutor Source Code Disk #31.)  It
showed how to  float your windows and also how to code 
WDEF's within your source code without smashing the heap.  I was frustrated
because I am an LSP person myself, but I managed to tran
slate the WDEF into Pascal without too much difficulty.  The point is, if
you can figure out what some one is doing in another langu
age, the same tricks can usually be used in your fave language too.  BTW,
QuickDraw and much of the ROM was originally written in Pa
scal, you know, so the argument could be made (but i won't make it here)
that Pascal is really the Mac's native language.  
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The above thoughts are my own.  We are not paid to think.  MNK