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- Item 5343119 13-Feb-91 16:56PST
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- From: SNYDER Snyder, Seth
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Yet Another OP/C++ plea
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- RE: Yet Another OP/C++
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- Hey Apple please don’t change to a C++ only world;
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- For all the reasons mentioned earlier and the ones listed below I think it will
- be a long time before I will be able to use a version of MacApp written in C++
- not that I really want to anyway.
-
- 1. It has taken 5 years to get from version .1 of MacApp to version 2.0
- literally thousands of bugs have been removed in all the various versions that
- have been released and MacApp is now a very stable and robust development
- environment. There is no way anybody is going to rewrite MacApp in another
- language and have anything near as stable as it is now without going thru just
- as many releases and bug fixes etc. This will probably take about the same
- number of years to accomplish. We are all in the business of producing
- reliable software. Why would a software developer subject themselves to these
- kinds of risks?
-
- The only way Apple could possibly pull this off is if they had an OP to C++
- translator tool that could translate 100.00 % of MacApp's OP code to C++. If
- the c++ code produced could compile and build a c++ version of MacApp that
- could be as stable as the OP code performs now.
-
- By the way if Apple can produce a tool like the one described it would be
- fairly easy to keep versions of MacApp available in C++ as well as OP. This
- tool and its companion a C++ to OP translator would alleviate many of the
- concerns that have been expressed if it were made available to us.
-
- What will happen if MacApp 3.0 is only available in C++ or if the source code
- is not supplied with MacApp? People will surely keep on working with the last
- official release of MacApp. Probably all matter of bug repairs and updates will
- become available throughout the MacApp community. The MacApp community will
- adopt the responsibility for MacApp's future.
-
- I hope that any object oriented development environments that become available
- from Apple in the future provide the source code for their object libraries. Or
- many developers will not want to use them and will probably find other class
- libraries to use that do. While looking for these new class libraries most
- developers will probably choose to make a switch to one that provides a high
- level of cross platform independence. And as a byproduct of that switch Apple
- will no longer be one of the leaders in OOP.
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- Sincerely
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- Seth Snyder
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