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MARX.PETER@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Marx, Peter,PRT) writes:

>ETO - Expensive, Toothless, and Obselete?

:-)
 
>I would love for
>Symantec and Apple to prove me wrong, but it seems that their attentions are
>being directed at other things (fonts, pc exchange cdevs, etc.)

Well, I'd guess they're intentions are to create a complex (and from
what I hear, prohibitively expensive) development system for the 'new
mac' and assure that there is no competetion.  As it stands now, if I
don't want to use MPW to do "serious" development, I can use the far
less expensive Think C.  I've owned both MPW and Think C for a long
time (although I stopped upgrading them both a while ago).  If
Symantec and Apple co-develop an expensive development environment,
who will author the inexpensive one, Microsoft ;-)?

It's enough to make you wish you'd just supported windows all along.
After all, even though it's a mediocre system, it's always been
mediocre, and always will be.  You know where you stand with them, and
they seem to encourage system development by guys with normal jobs who
like to program in their copius free time.  Ok, so they don't really
have a good object-oriented development environment.  Give 'em a
couple more years.  They'll ship a mediocre one, and marginally
improve it.  You know what to expect, how long it will take, and that
it will be cheap.

Ok, I'll eat my sarcastic hat now...



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Ken Wallich

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