19 Mar
2012
19 Mar
'12
10:39 a.m.
From: Ethan Dicks
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 9:17 AM
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Richard <legalize
at xmission.com>> wrote:
> IIRC, "professional" developers were
expected to use Pascal or C.
On the Apple II family???
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.
There was a native C compiler for the Macintosh (128K) in the latter
half of 1984. I'm sure of the date because I saw it before leaving
Chicago for Stanford, which was the end of September, 1984.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
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