19 Mar
2012
19 Mar
'12
12:48 p.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
Object Pascal was an object-oriented dialect of Pascal
developed at
Apple for Lisa operating system and applications development, IIRC.
Close. The
language developed for Lisa application development (but not
the OS, AFAIK), was Clascal, which was a different object-oriented
dialect. Experience with Clascal was one of the inspirations for Object
Pascal.
It's hard to consider Object Pascal to have been much of a success for
Apple, but Borland and its successors have been quite successful with it
to this day. I wonder how much of that is a result of Borland
downplaying the "Pascal" name, which has a bad reputation with many
developers, in favor of the name "Delphi"?
Its size and complexity were the reason that official
development for
the Mac was done on Lisas for a long time.
Actually almost all Mac developers moved
off the Lisa as fast as they
could. While the limited memory of the original 128K Mac was a hindrance
to development, the 512K came around pretty soon, and unofficial
upgrades before that. It took Apple a while to get MPW out, but there
were plenty of other options for natively hosted development early on.