On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe with ProDOS and the IIgs, but not with AppleDOS and the
II/II+/IIe/IIc/IIc+. ?"Real" apps were either assembly or perhaps
compiled BASIC. ?Not a lot of serious language choices on 6502
platforms prior to 1986.
Having read the Hernia Manuals when they came out on 3-ring binders,
all I saw were references to Pascal. ?It looked painful/excessively
verbose to call the toolbox routines from 68K assembler. ?I don't
think I saw much for C on the Mac until 1986 or 1987, but there are
probably others here who were closer to that world at that time who
could provide more precise dates.
UCSD Pascal was useless. All it did was take up all the RAM, so you
couldn't actually write any code. The disk system was insane. Were
there any other Pascal flavours? I can't remember...
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