[info-mcl] Pathname and Unicode in MCL 5.1

[Christopher Eliot]

Long-term development support requires money; people who buy high-end  
machines have money, by definition. Companies can't afford to ignore  
the most profitable segment of the market. Not for long.




On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Alexander Repenning wrote:

> that is what apple told me and all other developers. Leopard and at  
> least one more generation of OS X will happily run 32 bit carbon  
> apps. The only limitation is that they will not be able to run in  
> 64 bit mode. I am sure we could have some fun discussion here about  
> Carbon versus Cocoa but lets, for once, not waste our time. MCL has  
> a real problem but Carbon is not it. If we - developers and users -  
> have to keep old (PPC) hardware to work on our SW, now that is real  
> problem.
>
> Yes, I don't speak FOR Apple. If it would be up to Apple, i.e.,  
> Steve, we would all be programming in Objective-C now. No, thanks.
>
> alex
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
>
>> You clearly don't speak for Apple when you opine that "carbon will  
>> hang around for a long time."
>
> Prof. Alexander Repenning
>
> University of Lugano
> Faculty of Informatics, Via Guiseppe Buffi 13
> Lugano, 6904, Switzerland
>
> &
>
> University of Colorado
> Computer Science Department
> Boulder, CO 80309-430
>
> vCard: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/AlexanderRepenning.vcf
>
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