[info-mcl] The Future of MCL should be FRED, Quickdraw translator and Intel compiler

[David Cope]

>As to the discussion regarding the future of MCL and OpenMCL, I think 
>the priority should be to port and/or reproduce as much as possible
>of MCL so that it runs on recent Intel Macs.

Exactly!

>I would like Fred and something like a translation of Quickdraw more 
>than anything else.  I want to continue using, writing and debugging 
>code in the same proven and familiar environment.  I want to continue 
>using megabytes of legacy code.  So I would like all the standard
>things found in MCL:

Perfect!

>So I have resumed writing code in MCL
>on a g5 machine as well as an old Wallstreet.  I can keep at it for 
>some time if need be.  I do not plan on buying an intel machine until 
>it runs something like MCL.  Its the only feature that would make me
>think that an intel Mac was a useful machine.

Completely agree!!

Dave Cope
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