peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) (07/01/91)
In article <ingemar.678274689@isy.liu.se>, ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) writes: > > With the Think compilers around, and the tools available to modularize the > code better, I don't think the Mac is a pain to program. However, trying > to program in Megamax C or TML Pascal (pre-MPW) was a pain, especially > without the "modularizing" tools (OOP libs, TransSkel, MacApp etc). But Megamax C was so cool! You would watch the thing chugging along - letting the stack run into your video RAM (since you had used up all the other available memory on the *Fat* Mac (Mac 512)) and as it came closer to filling the whole screen and closer and closer and *POW* it used up all available memory and you couldn't go any further (or did it crash??? it was too long ago for me to remember). In those days I had a saying: "I'm a commercial programmer - I program during commercials!" And it took all the time in-between to compile and link! -- michael P.S. And to think MacWeek still uses the program I developed back then (my first Mac App & my first C program - never try to learn those two together!) as a CPU benchmark! (EarthPlot for those who care...) -- Michael Peirce -- outpost!peirce@claris.com -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- & Consulting -- (408) 244-6554, AppleLink: PEIRCE