Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't all early Mac apps (and hence
Windows apps, since most of the Killers, including MS Office, started
life on the Mac first), like the Mac OS, originally in Pascal?
Certainly lots in the early printed versions of Inside Macintosh are
chock full of Pascal, and only later were bits of C added.
Since IM was so complicated, along with trying to understand 2
languages interspersed in the docs, that it took Rb to come along
before I started programming for the Mac.
On 22 Feb 2006, at 00:19, Jason McBride wrote:
Sorry to drag this topic on...
Borland made a cheap Pascal compiler in the 80's. Later they added
OOP support to it which then turned into Delphi, using Apple's spec
for OOP Pascal as a base.
The first version of PhotoShop was written in this Object Pascal
before Object Pascal later became Delphi.
IDK what the current version of Photoshop is written in but as you
can see the number one "Killer App" on your list wasn't originally
written in ANY flavor of C. Just like ALL major applications it has
been reworked and ported more often then the programmers would have
liked.
Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jef Raskin, the Mac's original project leader before Steve Jobs took
the role, and the "father of the Mac": "In 1979, I specified a long
list that covered most of the things we would do with it [the Mac]
though I missed four major uses: gambling, pornography, sending spam
and spreading viruses."
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