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- From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc
- Subject: Re: OOPC
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:18:08 +0800
- Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
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- My demo just arrived in AUSTRALIA!
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- These guys are VERY serious about getting their product out to the people.
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- The demo product looks like any other Mac mini drawing app.
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- The demo source looks clean and is certainly a lot simpler than a TCL
- equivalent would be (how much of that is due to judicious choice of example
- I don't know!).
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- There is a self-displaying document included with a full review of OOPC and
- a number of further explanations of the product.
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- In addition, I have had two responses direct from emine, in the past month,
- as a result of posting to them. The product sounds VERY interesting. The
- choices in dispatching and class design seem to parallel a lot of the
- decisions that Apple have made with Dylan (which I take as a big positive
- that emine have got it right).
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- My big reservation is, they do NOT have a class browser for the source - just
- an add-on object-browser for the Think Debugger. I have made this point
- forcibly to emine but it would help to have some further comments forwarded to
- them from the net.
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- I don't know about the general opinion, but I think it is ESSENTIAL to have
- a class browser for source, particularly for:
- - maintenance
- - incremental development involving adding methods to several classes
- - integrating and understanding other people's class libs.
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- OOPC could be the poor man's way of getting oo cross-platform (given the
- suggested $10k price tags for Bedrock mentioned recently).
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- Andy Dent (A.D. Software - Mac & VAX programming)
- 94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA Western Australia 6066
- Phone/Fax: 09 249 2719 (local) +619 249 2719 (International)
- Internet: dent@DIALix.oz.au Compuserve: 100033,3241
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