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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: multitasking and IPC (was: System 8.0: no more DA's.)
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Date: 28 Dec 88 15:34:41 GMT
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In article <1136@sw1e.UUCP> uucibg@sw1e.UUCP ([5-3929] Brian Gilstrap) writes:
 
>I love the Mac.  It's a slick, snazzy, snappy, wonderful environment.  BUT,
>the number of programmers who are willing to spend HUNDREDS to perhaps
>THOUSANDS of hours learning how to program it in accordance with Apple's
>definition of "correct" is rather small.

The number of users who are willing to spend HUNDREDS to perhaps THOUSANDS
of extra dollars for a Macintosh instead of a PC clone are doing it for a
reason. If programs are no different on the two machines, which machine do
you think we'll buy?

>But if you want new and slick programs
>to come out on the mac, don't force programmers to rewrite everything they've
>worked on.  And please don't tell me that all the really neat new stuff is
>coming out on the Mac, we both know better.

What neat new stuff is that?

>Mac environment will help this situation.  But wouldn't you like to have the
>nifty stuff available to other machines ported to the Mac in a *timely* fashion.
For the record, if a review of a program notes that it does not follow the
Mac interface, I'll look for another product that does. For me it is the 
Mac interface as practiced by Mac software developers that made me switch
to Mac in the first place. For all the word processor wars, there are plenty
of them that do what I need. For the same reason that you don't want to 
learn to program the Mac, I don't want to learn your program.

I'm perfectly happy with what I have today. We're not all sitting around
waiting for the perfect program; we have work to do and we're going to do
it with a minimum of fuss and bother. It would take one heck of a program
to get me to switch from Microsoft Word.

>Brian R. Gilstrap                     ...!ames!killer!texbell!sw1e!uucibg

Shirley Kehr