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- From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: GNU and MPW Shell?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.090858.3448@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <1993Jan8.000511.322@physc1.byu.edu> <C0JoIH.JuE@news.rich.bnr.ca> <1993Jan10.053730.29972@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:08:58 GMT
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- >Once someone ports the stand-alone gcc to the mac, you will _no longer_
- >need
- >to pay APDA $150 for MPW and however-much for their C compiler.
- >
- >People like _us_ will be able to have an inexpensive C, C++, Objective-C,
- >I
- >think they're working on Fortran and Pascal. That's FIVE languages for
- >the
- >price of NONE. Add to this that we could compile the rest of GNU and have
- >a
- >UNIX-alike.
- >
-
- Well if these ports are anything like the latest port of ghostScript to the
- mac, I don't see MPW or Think C as going out of business soon. I paid a
- little more for a mac so I could get away from programs with command line
- interfaces, where I have to read the manual to figure out how anything
- works. So far I have yet to see a port of any gnu util to the mac that is
- worth the 5 minutes effort it took
- to get it to my hard drive.
-
- When these things become mac apps, not recompiled unix apps, wake us all
- up.
-
- Maynard Handley
-