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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacApp questions
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Date: 31 Mar 89 20:17:24 GMT
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In article <568218@vaxa.uwa.oz> a_dent@vaxa.uwa.oz (Andy Dent, ph: 09 380 2620) writes:
|In article <27618@apple.Apple.COM>, keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
|>>2)  What Pascal's are out there that are compatible with MacApp?
|> 
|> Both TML and Think have Object Pascals. However, TML's is the closest to
|> being able to compile MacApp (I think that only a few changes to the MacApp
|> source are needed). . . .
|
|If (with a few changes) you can compile and link TML Pascal with MacApp, does
|that give you a means of using MacApp without MPW?  (I am rather put off by
|the vast cost of MPW.)

This refers to TML Pascal II (now at version 3.0, to match MPW), which
does require MPW.  It comes with MPW (without assembler, SADE, etc);
MacConnection is listing it at $125 or less (I think).  It includes
the two volumes of Apple MPW documentation and all the
non-language-specific utilities as well as the Shell.

|General question:
|
|What happened to Object-Oriented Programming for the rest of us 
|(ie:  Low-budget/Bright-ideas/Potential-genii)

Well, the above mentioned environment does give you an object pascal
for ~$125, if you want to write your own superstructure instead of
buying MacApp.

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about MacApp or much about anything,
really.  (I do have TMLP II, awaiting my 3.0 update.)

	/JBL
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