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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: Collection Classes for MacAPP
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <ksand-301292140501@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:09:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.141504.19923@gossip.urich.edu>
- Organization: (Evil Eye Creature from Mars, Inc.)
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- In article <1992Dec24.141504.19923@gossip.urich.edu>,
- martinher@urvax.urich.edu wrote:
- > I was disappointed by the paucity of collection class support when
- > I dug into MacApp.
-
- > What suggestions would you offer for grabbing a class library?
- > I have ported Nihcl to PCs in the past and it was nontrivial for
- > me. Or GNU++ libs maybe?
-
- As with other cases it's a matter of taste; like SmallTalk, NIH
- is the way to go. Want the reputation of Booch and a small template
- pre-processor for templates, purchase the Booch components package.
- Wait for something new from Apple, Bedrock will have a new set
- of collection classes. Heck, write your own, I wrote my set
- of hash tables, linked lists, queues and dequeues in two days. Don't
- have all the bells and whistles, but it does the job.
-
- The thing to remember is that if you are looking into cross-platform
- endeavors, you need to make sure that the collection classes are
- available on all platforms. This means that access to source, your
- own stuff, or a promise from a vendor that this will work with
- MacOS, Windows, OS/2 and UNIX is a good idea. And yeah templates,
- and please don't ask me why we don't have that in MPW 3.2 C++, we
- are aware of it and we will fix that issue (I'm not the person
- to lay out the marketing blurbs about that).
-
- Kent
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