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- Item 1391485 8-July-89 18:14
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- From: BURBECK.S Burbeck, Steve
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- To: UK0004 Bacchus & Smith, Paul Smith
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: Response to MacApp survey
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- Paul,
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- I am facinated by your question. I am confident that very few people first
- become enamoured of the object-oriented features of Object Pascal, and then
- move up to MacApp. In fact it is very clear from my own research that there
- are many developers who would prefer to use C++, but use Object Pascal to gain
- the benefit of MacApp.
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- However the recent new Object Pascal products from Borland and Microsoft may
- change the equation. I presume that an idea something like that is behind your
- survey. But of course, surveying MacApp.Tech$ gets a very biased sample.
- Still, please let me know the results.
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- By the way, I have argued for quite some time that the benefits of OOP are
- based on a triad: an OOP language, a mature OOP library of classes, and
- specialized OOP development tools. Of these, the language provides the smaller
- part of the benefit (although religious feelings about languages often make the
- language the determining factor in choice of OOP systems). The largest portion
- of the improved productivity comes from the class library, followed closely by
- the tools (browsers, inspectors, integrated debuggers, etc.). Any comment?
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- Steve Burbeck
- MacApp Product Manager
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