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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: resource forks
Message-ID: <31026@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 May 89 15:01:22 GMT
References: <890518011751.127016@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <890518011751.127016@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>And I really don't see why you can say it is better to have new extended
>files that ProDos8 can't use than not to have them at all; that's only
>your opinion.

	It is not just an opinion.  Resource forks allow you to separate
	code from data very easily, thus allowing users to customize 
	existing programs very easily (any body who has used ResEdit on
	the Macintosh knows what I am talking about), and it allows 
	developers to re-use their data in a more efficient manner.  Not
	to mention that a developer can create one program, and that
	program can be easily translated into an internationally 
	marketable product, because all the text belonging that the
	application uses can be stored in the resource, and can be 
	modified in a couple of minutes for each country, instead of
	re-compiling an entire product and having to maintain a zillion
	different versions (Can you imagine if you had a program sold
	in 10 different countries, and you had to fix the same bug
	10 times?!).

Cary Farrier