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From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The USENET Macintosh Programmer's Guide
Keywords: Programming Guide
Message-ID: <394@biar.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 05:11:34 GMT
References: <3966@ece-csc.UUCP> <11647@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <9937@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <9937@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> arwall@athena.mit.edu (Chumley Wood) writes:
>In article <11647@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>, zuhn@umn-cs (David D "Zoo" Zuhn) writes:
>>The common denominator among all programmers is TEXT files.

The lowest common denominator, yes.

>I agree that the most used medium is text files, but in the interest
>of readability and presentation some more aesthetic format is
>desirable.

Also true.  Why not Macwrite?  I've yet to run across a Mac that didn't
have a copy of Macwrite.  But I'd estimate only 15-20% of Mac users have
Word.  _I_ certainly don't.

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