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The important thing is not to be intimidated
If you tend to push your Palm-based Personal Data Assistant (PDA) to the limit, you've no doubt found yourself in the situation of trying to use an application that doesn't quite do what you want it to do. If you haven't wanted to learn the low-level nuts and bolts of the Palm OS and the corresponding assembly language of the Motorola processor they've been based on, you may have felt that you had to resign yourself to accepting the applications' limits. This assumption is far from true. If you have the desire to do any Palm development at all, there are numerous options available.
The most well-known of these is probably Metrowerks' (www.metrowerks.com) CodeWarrior for Palm OS Platform Development Tools, which we'll simply call CodeWarrior.
Currently in version 9.0, it sells for $399, which includes versions for both Windows- and Mac-hosted development. This set of tools comes with a full integrated development environment (IDE) and associated tools for producing distributable...