19 Mar
2012
19 Mar
'12
5:02 p.m.
On 19/03/12 3:33 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
Before the return of Steve, the hot new future of Mac development was
Dylan - like JavaScript, heavily Lisp inspired. I remember being excited
about Dylan at the time and then shocked when it was deep-sixed in a flash.
--Toby
I don't think Apple programmers began using
Objective-C in earnest until
MacOS 9, though it could have been MacOS 8. (Certainly the manual set for
MacOS 7 was still very much Object Pascal oriented.) Third-party programs
were much more frequently in C than in any form of Pascal, of course.
Did Apple ever use Objective-C before OS X? I was under the impression that was primarily a NeXT thing that got absorbed as
Cocoa. I certainly
never saw a hint of it the entire time I was developing for the Mac pre-
OS X. Carbon (the bridge between the Toolbox and OS X) was still very
much C-oriented.
- Dave