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Ralph Martin writes:
   While I'm at it, I'll fire off another broadside. What the heck is
   Apple doing with its new "develop" magazine? This is now yet another
   place to have to read .... Apple should really put its energies into
   producing ONE definitive work of documentation which is UP-TO-DATE,
   and contains both tutorial and reference material integrated in a
   sensible fashion, rather than glossy magazines. Programmers need
   information, not publicity/sales type material.

I agree that Inside Mac is currently "a mess." but...

I just got my copy of _develop_ and it is really quite excellent. Jam
packed with good quality sample source code, each article is an
advanced-level tutorial for the Mac programmer who wants to know "How
do I use ..." In many cases, the articles are written by the people
that wrote the system software in question. The editing is quite good
-- no stupid jokes, no cruddy english, straightforward and
well-written. This magazine is everything that MacTutor would wish to
be: accurate, good-looking, and correctly spelled. There just isn't
any "publicity/sales type material," either.

Frankly, I'm not all that sure what to make of the CD-ROM that came
with it, but this is mostly because I don't have a CD-ROM player. The
same code is available from APDA on regular disks.

I am really quite impressed with this trend in tech support materials.
Recently we have seen the introduction of DTS sample code, well-
written and very applicable to day-to-day programming; TechNotes in a
HyperCard stack, making them TONS easier to find and use; and now
_develop._

Now if ONLY we could eliminate the delta document in Our Time.....

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