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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A plea for revised mac programming documentation
Message-ID: <30650@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 May 89 06:11:07 GMT
References: <496@grand.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <496@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes:
>Imagine...
>
>It's 1990.  A programmer, perhaps already expert in
>another type of system, finally gets the message that
>the Mac is great, and wants to learn how to program it.
>
>Scenario 1:
>
>	[ The state of today ]
>
>Scenario 2:
>
>	[ The vision of tomorrow ]
>
>We can wish.
>

I can see how this topic can easily explode into another session on Apple
bashing ("Why the Hell can't Apple get its act together and put out some decent
documentation?"), so I just wanted to let people know what was currently going 
on.

By now, you all should have heard about the features of 7.0. Mark Johnson
posted the summaries to the net, and there has been some discussion on various
topics already. As you can see, there is a *LOT* going on. Even the media
has hardly failed to notice the significance of what we are doing.

Practically EVERYONE in Technical Publications is working on the documentation
for 7.0 right now. Other projects already started have been put on hold in
order so that we may have the documentation done at the same time as the
software. People at the Developer's Conference received binders full of
preliminary documentation, but there is still lots to do.

Until then, there is very little we can do to combine everything into one
place. Besides, I'm sure that everyone here would like to see the Combined
Technical Works of the Macintosh include System 7.0 stuff, so we need to get
it done first anyway.

At the very least, there the job security of people like me to consider, who 
get paid for know what's in these manuals... :-)

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