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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Object Pascal
Message-ID: <10128@claris.com>
Date: 11 May 89 01:22:11 GMT
References: <1794@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
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In article <1794@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) writes:
>
>	I'm kind of curious about the perception and uses of Object Pascal,
>so to scratch the itch, here are some questions:
>
>	- Do you use Object Pascal at all?
YES
>	- If so, why?
1: to use MacApp
2: it allows me to build programs in a more abstract, modular way
>
>	- Do you use MacApp?
YES
>	- If so, why?
1: to leverage off all the knowledge that is packed into the MacApp code.
   They check for so may cases of problems that I would overlook unless
   I spent LOTS of time thinking about it -- and then probably I'd get it wrong.
2: MacApp seems to be a very well thought framework.  I saves me the trouble
   of inventing it all myself.  In areas where I disagree with it's approach,
   I just override things or don't use the supplied classes.  Of course, this
   works best if you agree with MacApp most of the time.
3: I'm lazy and love to use all the supplied classes and get something that
   not only works, but works well (undo, save, etc) in a very short amount of
   time.
4: It really does seem to be more maintainable ONCE YOU LEARN THE SYSTEM.    
   The first few times you look at MacApp code it looks like a mess, but 
   eventually it really does all start to make sense.
>
>	- What Pascal compiler do you use?
MPW Pascal
>
>		--Rich
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Rich Siegel
> Staff Software Developer
> Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
> Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
> UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel

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