On Sep 9, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Robert Covington wrote:
Anybody know how much longer this shell will work? (is Carbon going  
out the door? Don't recall if that was a yea or nay in that last  
discussion)
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(1) This shell and code generated by FBtoC should work for many years.  
Carbon is not officially deprecated but even at that stage  
'deprecated' means they won't enhance it but it will still be there  
for use. Apple has made it clear that Cocoa is their direction and has  
stopped enhancing Carbon. If you are looking for new programming  
widgets, Cocoa is where they will be and not Carbon.

(2) Another possible way to build a carbon C shell is to use FBtoC.  
Maybe start with the FB Shell in the Examples folder, enhance it to  
contain other basic functions you need and then translate it using  
FBtoC. You would probably want to clean up the translated C code if  
you are working in C. This has the benefit of making the functions  
that support FB keywords ( LEFT$, RIGHT$ etc. ) available to the C  
programmer.  It might be easier for most to stick with the FB shell  
and use FBtoC. One advantage of going to Xcode is the editor universal.


Brian