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- Item 4559018 9-Feb-91 11:57GMT
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- From: UK0392 EHN & DIJ Oakley,BDV
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- To: MDTAYLOR@APPLE.COM@INTERNET# Gateway to Internet/BITNET/UUCP
- MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: The OP/C++ controversy
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- Mark & Friends,
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- Sadly for this discussion, we are not in the business of learning to program
- the Mac or of learning MacApp (although of course, we are all learning to do
- them better all the time!). We have four, shortly five, major commercial
- products, together with a number of lesser products, and a very tight
- development schedule with new products to ship every month until the summer.
- On top of that, we have to continue the move to STUDLYness in these
- applications, make the move to MacApp 3.0, and so on.
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- To put it bluntly, all our apps started under MacApp 1.1.1, and I am blowed of
- we are going to try to move them into C++ - we are talking megabytes of source,
- not a trivial job. If MacApp fails to provide the support that we require -
- and indeed the Macintosh as a whole (as the two are so intimately linked) then
- we will find it easier to change our Class Library or even our platform than to
- recode in C++. Apple may have unlimited programmer resources to make those
- sorts of changes, we do not and cannot afford to mess our customers around in
- that way. All we have seen of C++ - and we *have* tried it - says that the
- transition would be slow, painful, and not benefit ourselves or our customers.
- In your own words, "converting all of one's code may not be" easy, and we are
- not prepared to commit commercial suicide doing so.
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- I trust that such decisions will not just be based on what might be nice for
- the future (provide, of course, that C++ does turn out to be something more
- than a fad), but on those who are actually using MacApp in the real world now,
- to sell Macintosh systems.
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- Regards, Howard.
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