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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Position: Confused Undergraduate


	I'll remain neutral on the subject of posting the MacApp sources, but
let me ask: what is MacApp written in? Object Pascal? Lisa Pascal? If it were
written in LisaPascal (which I seriously doubt), it would be useful to those
of us who can't afford an implementation of Object Pascal (read that MPW).
Ergo, it's written in Object Pascal. Besides, I would wager it's a huge
amount of code to post. Can you say "A megabyte of source code?" I bet you
can!

	Personally, I'd like to see more implementations of Object Pascal
(Like in a future version of Lightspeed Pascal), and a leaner MacApp library
-- one that DOESN'T need a meg and hard drive! Is a stripped MacApp possible?
Or a MacApp consisting of modules? 

	What frosts me is that I am a college student, a programmer of some
experience, and a Macintosh developer of some experience, but I don't have
the resources (hardware = $$$$ x 10**3), so all these tools that Apple are
putting out -- and they are high-quality, too; in spite of its slowness and
size, MPW/MacApp is REALLY powerful -- are out of my reach! I have only what
I can afford: a 512K Macintosh with an external drive, both 400K drives, old
Roms, and so forth. I can't afford an upgrade, I can't afford another disk
drive (I borrowed an 800K drive from a friend). 
	I need a hard disk and a megabyte to run MacApp and/or MPW (I heard
that all MPW needs is 512K and two 800K drives, and I don't believe it
because I saw it choke on a 512Kenhanced), and I'm stuck.

	I'm sorry to have gone off on such a wild flaming tangent, but I
seriously think that more attention needs to be paid to the "kitchen-table"
developer (or college student developer, if you wish) than is being paid
right now.

		--Rich

These opinions are mine only, and they're like champagne: fermented for a
long time.


Richard M. Siegel
Arpanet: rs4u@andrew.cmu.edu (the only way to get to me!)

Disclaimer --> Disclaimers are bogus. 



(And as I finish this letter, my friend Joe Keane comes up to me and reads
the letter and says: "Rich, you know, the guys at Apple are going to read
your post, and say 'We're sorry you feel this way', and send you a megabyte
of memory just to shut you up.")