Re: [MacPerl] looking at Mac OS X

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 1/28/99 at 02:38, raffael@mediaone.net (Raffael Cavallaro) wrote:

> Then you are wearing rose-colored spectacles, my friend,
>
That's the only practical way to deal with Apple (tho it now appears that
the reknowned Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is gradually beginning to bend
back into Things As They Are). ;->

> Frankly, I'm very tired of having to re-boot (even with MacsBug installed)
> at least once a day if I do any sort of development work. If OS X either
> slips badly, or fails to deliver memory protection and PMT, I'll be
looking
> elsewhere for an OS (e.g., LinuxPPC with SheepShaver).

As a further aside, I would expect rebooting to remain a somewhat more
frequent need on Macs as long as PRAM and the present Desktop files are used
(and maybe they aren't in OS X?)- very problematic, corruptible goods.

To move this just a bit back on topic, I do like Linux, but have thus far
not come across any non-server Linux apps that I consider as intuitive (or
productive) as comparable Mac apps. To focus on Perl/MacPerl, I realize that
Emacs is very powerful and I assume that it is one of the first choices for
someone writing Perl in unix, but I personally am much more comfortable in
the BBEdit/MacPerl environment (which may be a little more stable now that
BBE 5.02 is out). Maybe that's just the difference between years of BBEdit
use vs. 6 mos. of Emacs exposure on my part.

BTW, you got me- what is SheepShaver?

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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