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- From: blob@gallant.apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
- Subject: Re: Is anyone using MacApp for serious development?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.155530.28391@gallant.apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:55:30 GMT
- References: <k12guB2w165w@coyote.datalog.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc.
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- ferdie@coyote.datalog.com (fred jarvis) writes:
-
- > Is anyone using MacApp for serious development?
-
- > My employer is developing MS Windows applications
- >(currently in C) and wants to convert one of our programs
- >to the Mac. My preference is MacApp so I can develop
- >in C++. However, browsing through a copy of "Develop,
- >The Apple Technical Journal" (Issue 10), I see nary a word
- >about MacApp or OOP. Do true Mac gurus not use MacApp?
-
- Yes, quite a few "Mac gurus" use MacApp. In fact, I'd estimate (guess)
- slightly less than 1/3 of our commercial developers use MacApp. Some
- smaller percentage use Think Class Library, which is C+- based (i.e.
- Think C 5.0.4 doesn't support all of C++). MacApp is a mature and full
- featured application framework.
-
- (The AppleLink MacApp3tech$ mailing list has over 300 entries, if that
- additional number tells anything.)
-
- I'd have to say that determining that Mac gurus don't use MacApp based
- on one issue of a technical journal is rather like looking at
- one day's worth of articles in rec.sport.hockey, not seeing any articles
- on college hockey in the USA, and concluding that hockey isn't played by
- any colleges in the USA.
-
- Look at other issues of Develop and you'll find code written in
- MacApp.
-
- --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
-