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From: phinely@Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
Subject: Re: Amelio's speech at WWDC
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Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 00:36:39 GMT
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In article <4n8bbu$48d@pravda.cc.gatech.edu>,
Lyman S. Taylor <lyman@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>In article <DrCz7G.C7@news.hawaii.edu>,
>Peter Hinely <phinely@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:
>>A Macworld article covering Amelio's opening speech at the WWDC said that
>>he promised Apple would spend "$18 million to make Macintosh programming
>>better".  The article did not define "better".  (Of course, what could be
>>better than Dylan.)
>

I was not hinting that Apple was going to revive their Dylan project. 
Unfortunately, I don't think Apple will do anything with it except let it
wither away. 


>  Ah but Apple has to support/develop :
>
>	1. MrC and MrCpp  two highly optimizing, max performance C/C++ 
>		compilers. ( like Motorola's SDK  and IBM's xl* class
>		optimizers ).

Doesn't Motorola's compiler and libraries produce significantly faster
code?  I'm not sure why should Apple bother competing against Motorola in
that market. 


>	2. MPW Shell and associated Tools  ( support for SourceServer in 
>		particular has been distrubingly lacking in vigor. )
>	3. MacApp  ( which is being "resuscitated" )
>	4. OpenDoc / Open Doc Parts Framework

In an alternate universe, Apple might work on a Dylan binding for SOM (I
hope that's the correct terminology) plus an ODF-like framework for Dylan,
while Harlequin developed the Windows version of the framework. 


>	5. Netwon developing tools 
>	6. Oh yeah the mysterious Denali, a Visual Basic clone for Open Doc
>		.. which is still in the "its coming real soon now" stage.
>

One would hope that the so-called Denali supports OSA and multiple
languages.  Is there any reason that OSA can't support compiled languages? 

