Conference turris::languages

299.0. "DECmug meeting with Symantec's THINK languages" by DUGHAL::PETERM () Tue Feb 05 1991 14:30

This looks like a great oportunity to see what some other companies have done
when implementing developement envirmonments:


                                 February 7th 
                                THIS THURSDAY
                                 5:30-7:30 pm
                                 (5:00 setup)
                        Symantec's THINK C and Pascal
                        CASE Development Environments
                              Babbage Auditorium
                               ZKO1, Nashua NH


DECmug will be hosting Symantec Corporation this Thursday in the  Babbage
Auditorium in ZKO1.  Since there will already be a meeting in Babbage before
DECmug, setup will not start until 5:00.

Symantec Corporation will show and discuss their programming languages and
tools.  Think Pascal provides one of the best development environments for the
Macintosh, and Think C has become one of the most popular languages for
creating Macintosh applications.

The THINK Pascal environment is unique with its language sensitive editor that
parses your source code while writing your application.  Pascal supports Object
Oriented Programming.

THINK C, while not fully supporting C++, does support a whole set of class
libraries.  THINK C uses no pre-processor for object oriented support.

The THINK tools, unlike Apples MPW, are bundled with the compiler.  The class
libraries are smaller and faster than Apple's; better they are free.

Both C and Pascal offer a source level debugger with all the tools that we find
in our VMS debugger, except these are using windowing GUI's making debugging
much easier.

This presentation will cover all the tools and we will have an engineer
available for technical questions.

HOW TO GET THERE!

Head towards Nashua... eventually, you will get to Rt. 3 in Nashua.  Take Exit
1 onto Spit Brook Road. 

From the North, take a right off the exit.
From the South, take a left off the exit and pass under Rt. 3.

Take a right into the  (2nd light from the North, 3rd light from the south) 
light for the access road to Sheraton Tara and Digital.  At the next light
go straight onto 110 Spit Brook Road DIGITAL ZKO property.  You will pass one
access road and two parking lots.  The next access road leads to the main 
lobby in ZKO1.  There is a lot at the end of this access road on the right.

Enter into the main lobby, take a right at the security desk, Babbage is a
right at the DCU money machine.  (Before you get to the passway to ZKO2)  Ask
security if you are unsure.

SEE YOU THERE!