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Executor and language support (Think C and Think Pascal)



Hi Folks,

Here's our official policy on supporting language systems.  Basically  
they won't be supported under 2.0 because they have a limited  
usership and because some of the functionality just won't be present  
under 2.0 (specifically the ability for one program to run another  
program without disappearing and the ability to do various low-level  
things that debuggers do).

On the other hand, we do have Think C 6.0 in house and it starts to  
work and then has some sort of filesystem problems.  Since there  
should be no filesystem problems in any Mac program running under  
Executor, we'll be fixing those.  If Think C 6.0 is then able to run  
well enough to create applications, we'll mention that when we list  
the status of various programs that we're testing.

If Think 6.0 turns out to be useful with some limitations in  
debugging, then we'll pick up a copy of Think Pascal and see if we  
can bring it to the same state (if it doesn't just work).

Languages that have interpretted debuggers, like HyperCard are much  
bigger candidates for support under 2.0.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com