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- Item 2875626 8-Feb-91 08:58PST
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- From: LOCKWOOD Savitar, Mike Lockwood,PRT
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Yet Another MacApp/C++ Opinion
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- Dear MacApp people,
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- Now that the news is out, I thought I would express my opinion about MacApp
- being converted to C++ (it seems that everyone else is!).
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- I personally don't care what language MacApp is written in. I don't
- understand why anyone else would.
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- I am currently using MacApp (written in Object Pascal) with C++. It doesn't
- matter to me that MacApp is in OP, because I have C++ headers. I don't expect
- the conversion to C++ to affect, either in a positive or a negative way, my
- ability to write Macintosh applications. Once MacApp is compiled, it doesn't
- matter to me what language it was written in.
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- I think the choice of a language is mainly to benefit the people at Apple that
- are writing MacApp 3.0. I think they should use whatever language THEY THINK
- will make MacApp a more robust, maintainable, and extensible product. If they
- think using C++ will help, fine. As long as they provide Pascal headers,
- what's the problem?
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- I've been using the C++ headers for an OP based MacApp with no problem. If
- C++ will help improve MacApp (the MacApp Team can decide that), and continue
- supporting OP thru header files or some other means, you are no worse off than
- I have been using C++ headers with MacApp 2.0, which after 1.5 years, I have
- no complaints about.
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- Drinking the soup with wild abandon,
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- Mike Lockwood
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