5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
4:11 p.m.
At 9:48 -0500 9/5/07, Trag wrote:
Later, they based
their examples on Codewarrior, but Codewarrior arose around the time of
the PPC era, so Think C is probably the better choice. I'm pretty sure
that early Codewarrior included the ability to compile for 68000, but I'm
not certain and if you're developing on the IIfx, Codewarrior might be a
bit cycle hungry.
I can pretty much confirm this. CodeWarrior is a thing of beauty, but
it's a thing of beauty with a substantial disk footprint. 411 MB for
a full install, literally thousands of files.
It seems fast on my PB3400, but I don't think that much speaks to its
usability on a IIfx.
Turbo Pascal rocks on the Mac Plus, FWIW; I'd expect Turbo C to be
roughly as good but don't know from experience.
MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop?) hasn't been mentioned yet;
that was the Apple-supported environment, but rarely held up as a
standard of usability.
http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/
Also in the "you should know about" category is "Inside Macintosh",
the Apple manual set for how to write Mac Applications, of which the
oft-quoted description is "(n > 10) volumes, to understand the
content of any one of which you have to have already read the other
(n-1)".
I think at least some of the content is available at
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos8/mac8.html
Good luck!
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