kieffer@spf.trw.com (Bob Kieffer) (03/15/91)
Howdy folks, I work part-time for a small company that does a variety of development work. Most of our programming is done using a fairly standard set of programming tools (i.e. THINK Pascal and C, ResEdit, and Prototyper). We've been using these same tools for several years now, and there is a growing concern that we might be getting out of touch with what products are currently accepted, or are gaining acceptance, within this community. Most of our work is done in Pascal and perhaps our biggest question concerns the split between developers using Pascal as opposed to C. Several other questions about the popularity of products and environments currently in use have also cropped up however... enough so that I thought it would be worthwhile to circulate a questionnaire. Anyway, what follows is a list of the questions that we've wondered about. We've also included our answers as well (hey, why not?). If you folks can spare a couple minutes to fill this out and e-mail it back to me it would be greatly appreciated. I'll post the results of all this if I get a good sampling of responses. Also, if you have any other questions that you'd like to see put forth, I may post a follow-up questionnaire... we'll just have to see. Anyway, I'd really appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, Robert Kieffer Redondo Beach, CA. Please reply to: tracer@spf.trw.com(internet) or (kieffer@spf.trw.com) (buckeye@spf.trw.com) * * * * * * * * * The Questions * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1.) What languages/programming environments do you use? (Language: Pascal, C, Modula2, Assembly... Product: THINK, MPW, Aztec, TML, any others) 2.) Object programming...Do you? What kind? (MacApp, THINK Class Library, other) 3.) What debugger? (THINK's built-in, SADE, TMON, The Debugger, Macsbug, other) 4.) What Disassembler? (MacNosy, other) 5.) Program generators? (Prototyper, AppMaker, other) 6.) Resource editors? (ResEdit, Resourcer, RMaker, other) For the record... 7.) Your type/size of organization? (commercial developer, in-house developer, university, individual, other) 8.) Primary development area? (commercial, research, business, other) * * * * * * * * * * Our answers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1.) What languages/programming environments do you use? - THINK Pascal(80%), THINK C(15%), CDS Assembler(5%) 2.) Object programming (OP)...Do you? What kind? - We use an in-house OP toolkit. MacApp's learning curve was to large and TCL was too awkward and hard to use. 3.) What debugger? - The Debugger (for the tough problems) and THINK's symbolic debuggers the rest of the time. 4.) What Disassembler? - MacNosy. Are there any others? 5.) Program generators? - Presently we use our own OP toolkit. Before that, Prototyper. 6.) Resource editors? - ResEdit (haven't tried Resourcer yet.) 7.) Your type/size of organization? - 5 programmers (commercial developer.) 8.) Primary development area? - commercial applications * * * * * * * * The end * * * * * * * * *