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From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Ideal Inside Mac...here we go again
Message-ID: <15186@well.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 89 19:31:13 GMT
References: <37460@apple.Apple.COM> <33360@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
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In article <33360@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>In article <37460@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
>>What is the ideal Inside Mac? Is it bound?  3-ring punched and updatable?
>
>Has anyone tried out the new SpInside Mac that was included on the Release
>Version of Phil & Dave's CD?  My copy just arrived today, but since I
>don't personally own a CD drive...
It's real nice, and cross-ref'd with the Q&A Stack and the Tech Note Stack,
like it should be. However, it's STILL in Hypercard, so, it's rather mind-
deadeningly slow.  And of course, just try and check the usage of a trap
from Macsbug...  So I guess the cost of SpInside Mac is the disk plus a CD
drive plus a spare mac.

Based on my usage of Inside Mac, what I could use is a sort of hierarchical
Inside Mac: maybe a nice spiral bound quick reference (traps and etc
alphabetically, like Programmer's Online Companion) with pointers into 
a larger set of documentation, including sample code fragments with a
STANDARD coding style, and painfully clearly documented.  Because there
are plenty of times that computerized documentation isn't the best thing
(like, you can't afford to dedicate a Mac to be Inside Mac), it's important
that the printed documentation has some thought put into it.  But the
computerized stuff is invaluable, especially the part about the penguins.

-Bill Hofmann