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In <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com> toma@baritone (Thomas Arneberg) writes:

>Can someone tell me how similar MPW is to the C-shell in Unix? I've been an

Not very.

>never PROGRAMMED on the Mac. I'm too hooked on vi, make, history (!), grep, 
>awk, pipes, shell scripts, and other features of Unix on my SparcStation.

Vi: not a chance unless you get an external editor.
Make: included
History: Everything you do, is saved in a window (worksheet) both input
         and output, fully editable. You can "execute" any line or
         selection.
Grep: Compiled GNU grep & egrep without problems, also "Find" does
      another similar kind of RE.
awk: Has been ported, as has perl.
pipes: Pseudo-pipes, using files as intermediaries I think. Can only
       go one way (and there+s no "pipe" system call)
Shell scripts: MPW scripts out the kazoo. MPW shell is not exactly like
               csh or sh, but at least as powerful.

What's on the horizon is AppleEvents for having scripts control
a bunch of stuff; will be way cool!

>Also, isn't it true that MPW is the only platform on which you can program
>in C++? If not, what other product is there? (A related question -- does
>anyone know if MPW C++ supports templates?)

Yes and no. Think C will probably be Think C++ next year. MPW C++ is
CFront 2.1, which has no templates. Use StreamEdit, the Mac variant
of sed :-)

Cheers,

							/ h+

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