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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic)
Date: 1996/10/08
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In article <xd4tk5e4oa.fsf@andros.cygnus.com>, Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com> writes:

> MPW *is* Apple's officially supported programming environment.  Even
> with its limitations, it can do many tricks that the IDEs can only
> dream of, such as building MacOS itself...

But one of the tricks it cannot do is start programmers off easily.
I am not saying that MPW is never better, but that there are many
settings in which a quality IDE (free of command lines) is better.

Larry Kilgallen