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Subject: Executor and language support (Think C and Think Pascal)
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Hi Folks,
Here's our official policy on supporting language systems. Basically
they won't be supported under 2.0 because they have a limited
usership and because some of the functionality just won't be present
under 2.0 (specifically the ability for one program to run another
program without disappearing and the ability to do various low-level
things that debuggers do).
On the other hand, we do have Think C 6.0 in house and it starts to
work and then has some sort of filesystem problems. Since there
should be no filesystem problems in any Mac program running under
Executor, we'll be fixing those. If Think C 6.0 is then able to run
well enough to create applications, we'll mention that when we list
the status of various programs that we're testing.
If Think 6.0 turns out to be useful with some limitations in
debugging, then we'll pick up a copy of Think Pascal and see if we
can bring it to the same state (if it doesn't just work).
Languages that have interpretted debuggers, like HyperCard are much
