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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Standard File and Desk Accessories
Summary: I can think of a few...
Message-ID: <12092@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 17:13:09 GMT
References: <50967@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <7547@hoptoad.uucp> <4972@umd5.umd.edu> <7596@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <7596@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> I agree with Rich; to do serious programming on the Mac, you *need* an
> assembler.  I think it was a terribly foolish decision to stop bundling
> the excellent MPW Assembler with the MPW Shell.  I can't imagine a
> serious programming project on the Mac that uses absolutely no assembly
> language.  Very little, possibly, but none?  No way.
> 
	I will agree with both Tim and Rich that an assembler is a VERY useful
item and that no programmer should be without one - HOWEVER I disagree that just
because a program does not have any assembly in it, means it is not a SERIOUS
programming project.  I can name a NUMBER of major commericial Macintosh
software which does not contain ONE SINGLE ASSEMBLY instruction. (this even
includes defprocs!)
	
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