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In article <bwanga-0702961550230001@metricom12.ucsc.edu>,
bwanga@cats.ucsc.edu (Timothy A. Seufert) wrote:

    In article <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79>, nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU
    (Nevin ":-]" Liber) wrote:
    
[snip]
    
    If you're a scientist who wants to whip out a quick little program that
    does some matrix ops on some rather _large_ data sets (say, multiple
    megabytes), while still being able to word process in the foreground
    without difficulty, the MacOS is much harder to use than UNIX.  Under
    UNIX, you write the processing algorithm, compile it, fire it up, and go
    off to do whatever floats your boat while your code grinds away.  Under
    MacOS, you write the processing algorithm, try to figure out a good way to
    stick in the WaitNextEvent() calls, spend at least a half-hour fiddling
    with it to get good responsiveness from foreground apps, and then go off
    to work on other things.
    
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    |Tim Seufert, bwanga@cats.ucsc.edu | UselessWastedSpace(tm) |
    | "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they  |
    |  think it is hell."  -Harry S Truman                      |
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Actually, the best way to do scientific or engineering problems is to use
commerical apps like Matlab. Your productivity will increase by about a
factor of 10. 

Forget C and WaitNextEvent. Let the professonal developers worry about
low-level details like these.

Tom