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- From: toma@baritone (Thomas Arneberg)
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <01050133.ksdp2c@distant.uucp> <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 15:58:50 CST
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- In article <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu> bowman@reed.edu (BoBoRamDos) writes:
- >As much as I love the Mac, the command line interface with piping has some
- >*really nice* things about it. Grepping, scripting, complete customization
- >of the environment, all these things make MPW invaluable to me. It's so
- >easy, for instance, to search through MacApp for examples of how to do various
- >things; it's so easy to search through your source looking for *anything*.
- >Then you can write a script to intelligently change what needs to be changed.
- >Not to mention Projector.
-
- Can someone tell me how similar MPW is to the C-shell in Unix? I've been an
- avid USER of the Mac fan since the early days ('84), but to this day I have
- never PROGRAMMED on the Mac. I'm too hooked on vi, make, history (!), grep,
- awk, pipes, shell scripts, and other features of Unix on my SparcStation.
-
- Also, isn't it true that MPW is the only platform on which you can program
- in C++? If not, what other product is there? (A related question -- does
- anyone know if MPW C++ supports templates?)
-
- Thanks,
- - Tom A. (Mac programmer wannabe)
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