At 10:55 AM -0400 7/21/00, Jon Niehof wrote:
> > Meanwhile, it has been sad to watch MacOS lose pace with the times. My
>> wife is one of the few die-hard Mac users I still know.
>I spent a summer doing web devel on the Mac a few years ago, and gained a
>lot of respect for the platform. I still say that QuickKeys is essential
>for being able to actually *use* the thing, tho.
If you are a person who prefers the keyboard to the mouse,
then yes, a macro program is a big part of it.
>Frankly, I think part of
>what's hurting the platform right now is its difficulty in grabbing Open
>Source/ free software mindshare.
I don't know if that's what really hurting it, but you are
right, it doesn't have the mindshare - but for many different
reasons. This was part of our discussion with Eric Raymond during
his recent keynote at the MacHack (<http://www.machack.com>)
conference. I'd be glad to have this discussion (why open source
doesn't work the same on the Mac as it does with other platforms)
with anyone who is interested.
>I don't know of any free devel tools for
>MAc--enlighten me if they exist, because I'm planning on picking up one of
>the original iMacs sometime to play with, and would love to be able to
>code.
>
They do - the main one being MPW (Macintosh Programmer's
Workshop) from Apple. However, most professional development on the
Mac is done with CodeWarrior from Metrowerks - a commercial tool.
With the forthcoming Mac OS X, you'll find gcc (and related
tools) already there for your programming enjoyment.
Leonard
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