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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Technotes in FullWrite???
Message-ID: <11714@Apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 88 05:38:07 GMT
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>Oh yeah; one other point.  I have Turbo Pascal as my toy introduction to
>Mac programming and am planning to get MPW 3/C++ when they arrive.  Does
>that seem sensible to anyone?
>-- 
>Michael L. Siemon
>contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
>ihnp4!mhuxu!mls
>standard disclaimer

Turbo Pascal is NOT a toy, but it a very reasonable development
environment.  MPW is another very reasonable development environment.
It happens to be about 12 times larger and slower, but also has about 50
times the number of features.  (Those are very rough estimates done on
the fly)

If you just want to write a few small apps and desk accessories, Turbo
should be fine.  If you plan to write something BIG, or want to port
Unix stuff, or have several people working on the same chunk of code,
then MPW is pretty essential.

The LightSpeeds are pretty good too.  In our multilingual world I find
that I need and use Turbo and MPW day in and day out, so your plan seems
sensible.

Dan Allen
Software Explorer
Apple Computer
<#disclaimer.h>