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- From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc
- Subject: Re: Q: What's your opinion?
- Message-ID: <9713@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 00:01:14 GMT
- References: <1eab2mINNild@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov17.122020.6140@reed.edu>
- Organization: Fire in the Mountain
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- Objective-C for the Mac is available from the Stepstone Corporation.
- Unfortunately you not only need MPW to use it, it offers only a basic
- class library; that is, no nice interface widgets, so it putting an
- application together is still a big pile of work.
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- A better alternative is Prograph; unlike Digitalk's Smalltalk for the
- Mac, Prograph provides a real developer environment with things like
- persistent objects, an object database built in, C and Pascal
- interfaces, support for the Comm Toolbox, interface editors that make
- putting together basic Mac applications a breeze, and a very good class
- library. They also provide extremely good technical support to
- developers. Digitalk ST/V has none of these things. ST/V offers what
- amounts to a closed environment: you have to do everything in the ST
- virtual machine, and it is very difficult to break out of it without
- going to a lot of work. We've used both and are very very happy with
- Prograph.
-
- Andrew Cohill
- Eris: The Virginia Tech Information System
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- | ...we have to look for routes of power our teachers never
- | imagined, or were encouraged to avoid. T. Pynchon
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- |Andrew Cohill cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu VPI&SU
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