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Help! Mac Programmer wants to do Windows!

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From: Owen M. Hartnett
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 1990 04:25
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I'm a Mac Programmer (no flames, please!) who wants to write for
the Windows environment.  I'm hoping someone will give me some
pointers for:

Best development system (i.e. compiler):  Do I have to get C?  Can I get
Pascal?  What is Microsoft's SDK - Does it come with most compilers or
is it a separate purchase?  Is it available cheap from mail order?
Note: I prefer Pascal, but I can do C.  Looking for any recommendations.

References/Documentation:  There must be a Windows version of "Inside Mac."
If there are any good intro books, please feel free to recommend those.
(By intro books, I mean something beyond "this is a bitmap...
but easier to read than a straight list of system calls.

Programming Tools: I have no idea what's available, but if you tell me
what you think is indispensible...

If this information is already compiled into a "most often asked question
list," my apologies, but I did read through about 240 messages and
didn't find this kind of thread.

Thanks for any help,

-Owen

Owen Hartnett				omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET
Brown University Computer Science	omh@cs.brown.edu
					uunet!brunix!omh
"Don't wait up for me tonight because I won't be home for a month."
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From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
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Subject: Help! Mac Programmer wants to do Windows!
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Date: 11 Nov 90 04:25:24 GMT
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