On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Did you use, PASCAL for any special reason, or was it the only thing > around? > > > > I actually LIKE Pascal! > > I also enjoy Pascal. Any substantial program I wrote on DOS was in Turbo > Pascal, Turbo Pascal was my first language after FORTRAN. It was very nice on CP/M. Then my freshman CS intro language was Pascal so I was ahead of the game (tho I did most of it in C for other reasons). Pascal (suitably extended) is a fine programming language. and I even did some Modula-2 programming with MacMETH (worst name > ever). > The only Mac (OG MacOS 7) programming I ever did was with the Metrowerks M2 compiler. It was pretty great. You could even look at the Pascal examples in "Inside Macintosh" and you were 90% of the way there. Metrowerks even did a pretty good job at making M2 coroutines work on MacOS; I wasn't pushing any envelopes but wrote some things with multiple coroutines and didn't manage to crash things too often. Pretty wild considering the state of the art at the time. KJ
