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- Item 9851068 10-Feb-91 22:58GMT
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- From: UK0392 EHN & DIJ Oakley,BDV
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- To: MERRITT Merritt, Jim
- MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Item forwarded by RUF to FLICKMAN1
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- Sub: What is MacApp?
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- Jim and Friends (if there are any friends left out there during this highly
- partisan discussion!),
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- In my humble opinion, MacApp is (and should continue to be):
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- 1. The foremost, robust, industrial-strength, reliable, evolving steadily,
- open architecture, extensible, source included, Class Library for all Mac
- applications development. If it does not succeed at these, then it has been a
- very poor investment by Apple and everyone who has put time and effort into
- helping its evolution (thanks guys, your efforts *are* appreciated) - and
- heaven help us when Systems 8 or 9 come along. These make it a key part of the
- attractiveness of developing commercially for the Mac, and part of Apple's
- clear and continuing lead over its competition. MacApp is as much a part of
- Apple's 'Crown Jewels' as the Toolbox. To weaken it, or make it less
- accessible or reliable, destroys this as much as putting nasty bugs in the ROMs
- with obscure workarounds or fixes. Delays to the introduction of a System 7
- friendly version of MacApp will either weaken System 7, or MacApp as a credible
- development route, or both.
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- 2. A Class Library which leads those learning programming naturally into the
- development of Mac applications, whether in higher education or in their own
- time. It must be clear and understandable, although I do not consider that the
- use of an OOP language with theoretical strengths is essential, provided that
- those learning can understand it with ease (and at times I think those appear
- contradictory!). This makes the inevitable learning curve shorter, and induces
- newcomers to MacApp and the Mac.
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- 3. The best example of a successful Class Library, and how OOP is not all
- theory, but is a commercial reality.
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- Regards, Howard.
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