Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!vx2!spector
From: spector@vx2.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional -- Six Years Later
Message-ID: <6860031@vx2.NYU.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 88 19:31:00 GMT
References: <17069@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: New York University
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[GrumbleGrumble]

Now that's being more than just a little unfair!  Applications that
are location dependant are NOT APPLE'S FAULT!  Apple has said from the
very beginning (read IMI-V and the TechNotes, esp.  TN's 2, 25, 44,
117, 156 and 212) that program(er)s should not depend upon programs
being loaded into any spcific area of memory, not depend on memory
being [128|256|512|1M|etc|etc], the screen being any fixed size, and a
bunch o'other things.

Most Macintosh applications that are ___WELL_WRITTEN___ have no
problems running under any current, future *OR PREVIOUS* (with the
exception of HFS calls) version of the Macintosh OS.

Microsoft found out what happens when you don't follow programming
guidelines - your software breaks.  I think Apple DID do the Macintosh
community a disservice by letting Microsoft get away with the Excel
problems for so long -- and even making MultiFinder "Microsoft aware".

Apple has a lot of work to do on the Macintosh OS, and they are doing
a LOT to make sure that Applications work well in future incarnation
of the OS...  All developers have to do is follow the guidelines.  Its
really a lot harder to write a broken program on a Mac than it is to
write a working one....

If you want to flame something, flame companies that write and release
broken software.

_DHMS
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