On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:08 PM John via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pascal was the language of choice over at Apple in the original MacOS > days, and as Mike has noted Turbo Pascal was popular enough on the PC; > it was more, I think, that the UCSD-style language-environment-as-OS > paradigm never caught on in the microcomputer world. Early consumer > micros of course had ROM BASIC, but once you got past that to a > reasonably full-featured operating system, there was no compelling > reason for it to be tightly coupled to one particular language/compiler > when it could just as easily treat compilers as Yet Another Program and > support arbitrarily many. > The UCSD shell was atrocious. The compiler was slow. The editor was terrible. The entire experience was reminiscent of working on a dumb terminal connected to a mainframe, when it could've taken advantage of the features of the personal computer. I hated it. I hate it. Sellam
