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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: APDA on a disk
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Date: 19 May 89 22:50:17 GMT
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In article <7370@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:

>(4) It will increase pressure on third-party developers to come up with
>versions of their systems that are compatible with MPW Shell, which
>will be a boon to those devlopers who want to take advantage of various
>wonderful MPW Power Tools.  (I'd be *very* interested in an
>MPW-compatible Lightspeed C, for instance.)

	The architecture of MPW is incompatible with the design tenets
of LightspeedC (or Lightspeed Pascal, for that matter). For example,
there is no way that the instant-link/instant run cycle can happen,
due to the slowness of the MPW linker. (Not to spit on the quality of
the linker - it's a good one, and it's got some features I could use.)
In addition, the integration of tools to the shell is nowhere near as
tight as it needs to be to maintain the project management and auto-
make facilties, and the editor can't support features like option double-
click to locate a symbol, or the pop-up menus that provide instant
access to #include files.

	These are just examples; I'm not quoting official policy or anything
like that.

>(5) No third party developer has a product similar to MPW (as long as
>we exclude the compilers from "MPW proper"), so you aren't stepping on
>anyone's toes.

	Incorrect. Have you forgotten the Aztec C product from Manx?
It's a command-line interface, with tool and editor support. Very much
like MPW, but not as slick. (Commando's pretty nifty stuff!)

		--Rich



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 Rich Siegel
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