Editing Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (section)

==Other tools==
MPW included a version of [[make (software)|make]]. Its syntax was conceptually similar to that of Unix make, but used the [[MacRoman]] [[F with hook|long f]] character to indicate dependencies. More significantly, since the limitations of the shell precluded the make program from running tools itself, it had to work by composing a script of compile/link actions to be run, then delivering that to the shell for execution. While this was good enough most of the time, it precluded makefiles that could make on-the-fly decisions based on the results of a previous action.

Although not implemented as MPW tools, the package also came with several source-level [[debugger]]s through its history; SourceBug and SADE (Symbolic Application Debugging Environment) were used on MC680x0 systems, while the Power Mac Debugger (known during development as R2Db<ref>Short for RISC 2-machine Debugger; {{Cite web| url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_17/Falk_Topping_final.html |title=Debugging on PowerPC |website=[[MacTech]] |first1=Dave |last1=Falkenburg |first2=Brian |last2=Topping}}</ref>) provided both local and remote debugging services for PowerPC systems, the latter by using a server program known as a "debugger nub" on the computer being debugged.