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In article <237@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> edmoy@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA writes:
>You will have to know a little Pascal to really understand how to make
>the toolbox calls.

Let me correct Edward slightly-- you need to know a LOT of Pascal to really
understand the information in Inside Mac. I've been digging through it and
trying to make sense of it in terms of C, and I find the transitions
painful. I'm currently trying to reimplement all of the example programs in
Inside Mac in terms of C, just to give me a feel for how it should look in
a different language. The mac is a VERY complicated beastie, and very
powerful. Expect a fairly long learning curve before you reallly feel
comfortable with it, expect to spend long hours poring through Inside Mac.
Don't bother to try without it-- you won't get anywhere. The Mac is quite
different than Unix, since you can't really grab a small piece and play
with it until you've picked up enough to build a minimal environment (look
at Skel, for example...). As far as I'm concerned, though, its worth it. I
doubt that we'll see a replacement for Inside Mac from someone other than
apple any time soon, so you might as well grab it...

chuq
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