RE: [MACTCL] exec on mac

[macnerd <ma...@re...>]

Hello Aotto

>  very nice but unusable, why ?
> 
>   1) I have an iBook it seems that the iBook does not offer 
> all the keys

That's why you have the little "{Fn}" key, which can be used 
to hit keys that are not normally available on the iBook 
keyboard.  MPW was made for real developers with a real keyboard
like Apple Extended (this is a joke :)

> 
>   2) they designed the MPW tool which defines someting like a shell
>       ( I use the word something because they ignore all standards
>         available in EDP and start to redesign the wold from start )
>       it seems that they have infinity manpower or third 
> class management
>       or even worser -> put all the money out of the business 
> and let the
>      guys die

I'm not even sure what you communicated here.  MPW was a shell 
environment for developers, not for users.

>   3) I work with many OSs like OS2, Windows, Linux and Unix
>       From all my experience I can say
> 
>       -> the user interface is something like a "joke" it's more
>           productivity destroying than anything else I saw in business
> 
>      -> the most funny part MacOS is single user single task this mean
>          this makes it easy ( you does not need all the modern
>          programming stuff -> back in the 8?'s

Apple has some of the best HI designers and they make the best GUIs
and HI design.  This is not the case for MPW.  Apple has never been
good at implementing CLI interfaces.  IMHO, MPW is one of the worst
and overly complex CLI, but it is all there is for the Classic OS.
It's the only way to have a make file process, as CodeWarrior doesn't
support a make facility.

Perhaps it someone is brave enough they can port the Java Ants environment
from jakarta.apache.org, and make it call AppleEvents if possible to 
puppeteer CodeWarrior.  Though this is a bigger effort than just using
MPW, and most folks are jumping ship onto the first class passage upon
Mac OS X.
 
>   4) If I compare Linux-KDE with MacOS9.1 than I would say
>       -> no space left on device

I have no idea what you mean here.  Are you running Mac OS inside
KDE and you don't have space?  I thought of doing this myself, but
I mostly use Mac OS X and vanilla Mac OS 9.  Now I am using OS 9, 
because I have to do some web-design, and my graphic apps don't 
work well in Mac OS X.