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How to Write Macintosh Software (Hayden Macintosh library books)

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I have owned several of Scott Knaster's books. He used to own the Macintosh programming domain in the late eighties. Sadly I got rid of my Mac OS programming books in the early 90's (never get rid of books) and bought it without realizing I had it once.

This book has several interesting trivia tidbits, but it is 99% outdated. Some of the debugging techniques are useful only if you are still developing for Mac OS 9 and have access to MacsBug. While carbon apps in OS X may have similar restrictions/caveats, the memory representation and debugging techniques are useless because it just doesn't run that way.

As Macintosh programming lore, the rating for this book would be 5 stars, get it if you care about Macintosh programming archeology.

I have owned several of Scott Knaster's books. He used to own the Macintosh programming domain in the late eighties. Sadly I got rid of my Mac OS programming books in the early 90's (never get rid of books) and bought it without realizing I had it once.

This book has several interesting trivia tidbits, but it is 99% outdated. Some of the debugging techniques are useful only if you are still developing for Mac OS 9 and have access to MacsBug. While carbon apps in OS X may have similar restrictions/caveats, the memory representation and debugging techniques are useless because it just doesn't run that way.

As Macintosh programming lore, the rating for this book would be 5 stars, get it if you care about Macintosh programming archeology.