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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.232957.24528@kth.se>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 23:29:57 GMT
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- In <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com> toma@baritone (Thomas Arneberg) writes:
-
- >Can someone tell me how similar MPW is to the C-shell in Unix? I've been an
-
- Not very.
-
- >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.
-
- Vi: not a chance unless you get an external editor.
- Make: included
- History: Everything you do, is saved in a window (worksheet) both input
- and output, fully editable. You can "execute" any line or
- selection.
- Grep: Compiled GNU grep & egrep without problems, also "Find" does
- another similar kind of RE.
- awk: Has been ported, as has perl.
- pipes: Pseudo-pipes, using files as intermediaries I think. Can only
- go one way (and there+s no "pipe" system call)
- Shell scripts: MPW scripts out the kazoo. MPW shell is not exactly like
- csh or sh, but at least as powerful.
-
- What's on the horizon is AppleEvents for having scripts control
- a bunch of stuff; will be way cool!
-
- >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?)
-
- Yes and no. Think C will probably be Think C++ next year. MPW C++ is
- CFront 2.1, which has no templates. Use StreamEdit, the Mac variant
- of sed :-)
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
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- "On a clear disc, you can seek forever."
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