Mac/Win crosspltform Dev
14-Mar-94 20:49:05
Sb: #163948-Mac/Win crosspltform Dev
Fm: allen joslin 72632,2726
To: Neil Ticktin/MacTech Mag 71333,1065
>>I believe that most Macintosh developers are not interested in
>>developing commodities — otherwise they would have been developing
>>for Windows. Macintosh is about doing things better
>> — not like everyone else.
Got that right!!
And it works that way (sort of) in the Windows world also! A friend (who does
that stuff) told me that the word is: "If you want to make money use Microsoft,
if you want to develop software use Boreland".
>>Apple is going to be getting rid of the Shared Library
>>Manager in favor of SOM (an object manager) from IBM.
>>OpenDoc will make this move in one of its next prerelease versions.
I was really impressed with the ASLM, although I didn't get to use it, compared
to DLLs. I liked the thought of DLLs that could be used with C++. Will DSOM
work with C++?
Al;