8k Mac development environments

[Mark Tapley]

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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