19 Mar
2012
19 Mar
'12
1:16 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:33 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
I don't think Objective-C existed for classic MacOS development. Maybe
Tenon made some weird compiler for it, but it wasn't an officially
supported language.
IIRC MPW had compilers for C, C++ and Pascal, and MacApp was geared toward
Pascal first, then C++ later on.