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- Item 4326304 16-Oct-89 18:26
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- From: SCHMUCKER1 Schmucker, Kurt
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- To: D1282 Power Up,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: Re: Eiffel
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- Jim,
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- I believe (though I have not yet done so myself) that MPW C++ users can use
- multiple inheritance for their own classes, not descended from any of the
- MacApp ones. In terms of the QuadWorld example, the classes TQuad,
- TParallelogram, TRhombus, etc. can make use of MI; the classes TQuadDocument,
- TQuadGraphicalView, etc, can not.
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- I stand by my statement that for me to look seriously at a new OOL on the
- Mac, it must be able to access MacApp. It is the class library that is
- important, not the language. MacApp has more than 60 man-years of effort
- behind it, and I want to stand on the shoulders of those people when I do my
- work.
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- I can't see how another class library wil be as robust, as full-featured,
- nor as solid without a similar development effort. I am not interested in
- spending much of my time working with a class library that one person knocks
- off in a few months work. It just won't be as good.
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- Like many other programmers, I use many tools -- hopefully the right one
- for the right job. Smalltalk or Lightspeed Pascal for quickly trying an idea
- out, and MacApp to put that idea into a production quality application.
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- Kurt
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