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From: lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger)
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Subject: Re: Multifinder, MPW and DAs
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Date: 13 Feb 90 20:31:15 GMT
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In article <10522@microsoft.UUCP> earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON) 
writes:
> I would pronounce it [Apple's symbolic debugger] "Sade," as in "Marquis de   > Sade," the fellow who gave his name to sadism.  I do not mean to imply that  > Macintosh programming resembles sadism or any other perversion, of course.

For some reason, there is a long history of naming Mac debugging tools 
with names suggestive of S&M.  This originated, I believe, with Steve 
Capps' "Discipline" tool, which checked the parameters to trap calls 
before the calls were actually made.  It was continued with Steve Jasik's 
"Bondage" package (now named "The Debugger").

I'd have to agree that there's a strong element of masochism involved in 
Mac programming, though...

              Masochist: Hurt me!
              Sadist:        No!

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