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- From: sch@mitre.org (Stu Schaffner)
- Subject: Re: C and C++ development on the Mac
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- References: <1992Mar31.141620.26603@bmers95.bnr.ca> <1992Jul17.084856.18522@newstand.syr.edu> <sch-200792164510@schaffner.mitre.org> <aland.711733679@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:15:21 GMT
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- In article <aland.711733679@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>,
- aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) wrote:
- >
- >
- > Depending on the size of the company, I might agree. However, Think C
- > is not a proprietary language. It has some Think-specific EXTENSIONS
- > to ANSI C, but you can 1) not use them, and 2) turn them off. It's
- > definitely an excellent environment. MPW is nice as well; it's more
- > Unix-like with a CLI, and it still allows graphical control via the
- > Commando interface.
-
- Ouch, another flame war. IMHO (not a fact), Pascal lost favor because
- different groups offered different extensions and the users were unable to
- resist using and becoming dependent on those features. I know this isn't
- an object-oriented newsgroup but I can't imagine a bunch of Prolog
- programmers being able to resist using the OOP extensions. As for being
- proprietary, I just meant that salespeople aren't exactly deluging me with
- mail about other implementations of C+-.
-
- >
- > In short, Stu has a point that you can get both; on a major project
- > the thousand dollars (now $1250) is not a factor. However, since you
- > can get Think C for $189 or less, if price is a factor there is _no_
- > reason not to get it. And many reasons to get it. ;)
- >
-
- I think it would be silly not to evaluate the Think system, even if you
- eventually go with something else. Even though I no longer use it, I still
- like many of its features.
-
- Stu Schaffner, not speaking for
- The MITRE Corp.
- sch@mitre.org
-