19 Mar
2012
19 Mar
'12
1:02 p.m.
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.