10 May
2024
10 May
'24
12:37 a.m.
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:08 PM John via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
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