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Re: beginners on mac?

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From: Secret Mud
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 22:00
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From: arsouth@watson.ibm.com (Andrew R. Southwick)
>        If you want to write games, then I would recommend getting either
>an assembler or C.  Pascal does not have the low-level bit-twiddling capabil-
>ities that either of these other languages do; the new IM books have C and
>assembly summaries in addition to Pascal summaries and code (which is all the
>first series had).
>        Probably the best resource you can find for Mac programming is knowing
>another programmer, someone you can talk to every day (i.e. someone at school)
>who is doing the same things you are.  It helps to have a local sounding
>board, source code source, and fellow developer!
>
>        Good luck.
>
>Andrew R. Southwick        OS/2 & CORE        IBM TJ Watson Research

Your Pascal might (hard to believe!), but the one I use doesn't.  Could we
keep language fanaticism under control?
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