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Re:Your First THINK C Program by catketch on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:10PM (#22699302)
I used to work on this product (and think Pascal, Think Reference and other cool stuff). Fun times and a lot of great developers.

When compiling, there was a modal dialog that would show the name of each file being compiled...they went by fast even on early macs. Michael Kahl sped it up even more by figuring out that QuickDraw’s DrawText routine was still slow enough to be impacting compile time. So a custom blitter was made to replace it and a fast compiler got even faster.

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Re:Your First THINK C Program by macjohnmcc on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:58AM (#22703317)
I ran into that with a backup product showing the current file being backed up. I wound up just posting the current file to a buffer that was protected by a mutex and whatever file name happened to be in the buffer at render time was what was drawn.
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Re:Your First THINK C Program by RodgerTheGreat on Thursday March 26, 2020 @10:11PM (#22699947)
It really does feel delightfully modern to use. I've been having a great deal of fun playing with it lately. Excellent work!
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