22 May
2020
22 May
'20
2:17 a.m.
On 2020-05-21 1:22 PM, John Foust wrote:
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In the mid- to late 80s, there's the rise of the flat address space
68000 machines like Amiga and Atari which could enjoy the
cross-pollination of code ported from Unix C environments.
On the Mac, Apple's MacApp environment was their Object Pascal
and not C++ until 1991. Think C came out in 1986.
Few developers used MacApp, afaicr. Most used plain Pascal - initially
Lisa Pascal, though that was before my time on Mac - and those who
didn't like Pascal could write C on Mac before THINK, using tools like
Aztec C (or even Whitesmiths, one of the earliest).
Even though MPW was an excellent industrial strength environment with
good Pascal and C compilers, the big vendors like Adobe adopted
LIGHTSPEED-then-THINK-then-Symantec C quickly and rewrote Pascal apps
(like Photoshop) in C early. Then CodeWarrior came along and ate THINK's
lunch.
--Toby
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- John