Re: [MacPerl] MPW for free [off topic]

[Zalman Stern <zalman@macromedia.com>]

At 8:39 PM +0100 11/16/97,
riechert@miyako.japanologie.kultur.uni-tuebingen.de > > [MPW free] Am I
dreaming???

The shell has been free for quite a while. They threw in the compilers as
well recently. My interpretation of this is its Apple dev tools final
concession to Metrowerks. Perhaps things will be different in the Rhapsody
realm, but for MacOS development CodeWarrior is a vastly better deal than
ETO. (I won't shed any tears here. Sadder perhaps is the demise of
Motorola's compiler. In particular it would be nice for them to do a CWPro
2 version. I wouldn't argue with a version of MrC for CWPro either...)

I could go into the tragic loss of potentially the greatest development
environment ever lurking inside MPW, but I won't... Its slightly relevant
to MacPerl in that the world could use a cross-platform graphical IDE (i.e.
the IDE runs on Mac, Windows, and UNIX) that supported a standard tool
interface. Of course such a thing needs a rock solid scripting language and
the best extant candidate has a four letter name...

-Z-



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