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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac
Subject: Net.*SOURCES*.mac
Message-ID: <415@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 13:13:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 13:13:04 1985
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> In article <371@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >
> >You know, if net.sources.mac contained sources it'd sure be less likely to
> >generate this sort of reaction. I think I've seen a total of one peice
> >of source code in it. Fine, binhex up the resources fork, but if you're
> >going to post to a sources group, post sources.
> >
> 
> Well, perhaps you could recommend a language for the postings?

Whatever they're written in. NEON if that's what you used.

> Pascal? MSBasic?  Assembler?

Sure!

> C (and are all the C's available for the Mac compatible??)?

No, but that's a seperate gripe. Post in 'C' if that's what you used.

> XLISP??

Be nice. Be nice to see some XLISP source in any group, but I don't
think it's a "real" language. Certainly I don't have any applications
for it.

> As it is now, the binhex files aren't readable by
> humans, but they *are* usable by all MacIntosh owners (unless you have done
> something funky to your Mac, of course).

But it's useless to non-macintosh owners who get upset at net.sources.mac
because they see it as a resource drain. That was my original point.

> If source is posted, then it is
> usable to only a small percentage of MacIntosh owners, ie, those with that
> particular language.

True, and the corrolory of my previous point. I'm not arguing for or against
binhexes. I'm arguing for sources. For public relations if nothing else. If
the binhex is posted, it's only usable by a small percentage of programmers
who use that particular language, those who are macintosh owners. :->

> If you want the source, you are probably wanting to
> change something in it (else you would just compile it anyway), and can ask
> the author of it, and if he or she wants you to have access to the source,
> he/she can send it to you.

I want the source so I can see about porting it to non-macintosh machines.
If you can't write code that can be easily ported, feel free to hide behind
BINHEX. Writing non-portable code in a high-level language is a sign of
incompetance. I wouldn't want to run code written by an incompetant programmer
under any circumstances. Unfortunately, I have to: I have a "home computer".
The software involved is the operating system. But... that's another story.
-- 
Name: Peter da Silva
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