6 Nov
2006
6 Nov
'06
3:29 p.m.
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Chris M wrote:
what were these routines writtenw in originally? (C
presumably I suppose, though one could only wonder why
they werent written in assembly TBW)
MOST of the Lisa software seems to have been written in Pascal.
Part of Job's "we want the next (sic) generation, NOT a repeat of what we
already have!" philosophy that caused him to hire some CS graduates with
NO experience in order to get a fresh approach. Some of them didn't even
know that current Pascal compilers were designed for TEACHING programming,
and did not produce output suitable for real world.