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- From: krk@oit.itd.umich.edu (Kenneth Knight)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 23:03:05 GMT
- Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
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- References: <01050133.ksdp2c@distant.uucp> <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu> <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com>
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- In article <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com> toma@baritone (Thomas Arneberg) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu> bowman@reed.edu (BoBoRamDos) writes:
- >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?)
-
- Anyone who likes working with UNIX will find moving to MPW very pleasant. In
- fact, there are oodles of aliases already in place to MPW commands that map
- to their UNIX counterparts. The script language is very powerful (though a
- bit strange where pattern matchin is concerend - at least I always have to
- look things up, which is not hard) and has been pointed out before MPW is
- still really the only way to go if you want to have good control other
- source-code versioning. MPW is not nearly as fast as THINK C, but then THINK
- C lacks most of the power, too. As to C++ , yes at the moment MPW is the
- only way to get it (Apple uses AT&T's cfront). THINK C has a C++ subset, but
- it is only a subset. MPW is also the only way to go if you want to work with
- MacApp which is far and away much larger than TCL (THINK C's object class
- library) though the latter is good, too. Also, a port of gcc 2.x is in the
- works (not through GNU since R. Stallman doesn't like the Mac...) and that'll
- run under MPW.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- ** Ken **
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