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From: bernard@piper.colorado.edu (Bernie Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Programming environments
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Date: 9 Feb 90 17:50:14 GMT
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I haven't been hacking on the mac much in the past few years.  When I was
an undergrad, I programmed on the mac in TML pascal back when I had the
original loose leaf version of inside mac before they send me the hardbound
version.

Now I haven't written a real program for the mac in about four years.
Of course I have always owned a mac, but in grad school I have only
hacked Lisp on Symbolics.  I have kept my version of TML pascal and
Think C almost up to date, and now I will be writing some real
software again.

My question is:

Has anything changed about programming the mac in the past four
years?  What I mean is: Do I still have to write an event loop and
handle all events to windows and menus manually?  I would like to
write some code and then just throw in the user interface.  Perhaps I
am looking for a library of functions that can perform the menial
tasks of low-level event handling.  Is that what MacApp is?

I really want to know if we have left the dark-ages that we were in when
I last hacked the mac four years ago.

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