chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/20/85)
Picked up an interesting book earlier today-- Macintosh Pascal by Robert
Moll and Rachel Folsom (Houghton Mifflin Company, $expensive). It is the
first programming oriented book I've seen for the Mac that doesn't use
Basic, and it does a good job of being an introductory book on Pascal as
well as being an introductory book on the Macintosh.
The book was written in conjunction with THINK Technologies, the company
that did MacPascal for Apple. It relies heavily on the THINK environment--
it uses the MacPascal environment (prebuilt text and draw windows, for
example) exclusively rather than dwell upon the details of the Toolbox or
Macintosh internals. For someone who wants to play around with a Mac or
teach a class on a Mac, this looks to be a very good book. For someone who
wants to write applications or hack the Mac, you still need Inside Mac-- it
just isn't detailed enough and it won't translate out of the MacPascal
environment (which was my hope... sigh). If you use MacPascal, it is
definitely worth having. Now, if we could only get someone to write a
detailed programming book for the Mac in C.... (hint hint...)
chuq
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