23 Jun
2026
23 Jun
'26
3:15 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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
> 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,
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