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Late 70s and 80s: forget BASIC, we had Pascal and C (historical pascal programming borland cpm c) (retrofun.pl | ia)
6 points by retrofun_pl 490 days ago | 4 comments
  • bmonkey325 490 days ago
    I forgot there was turbo pascal on the Mac. Most who did pascal on the Mac in the olden times did so with Macintosh Programmers Workshop (MPW) which did as much or more than tunbo pascal did for creating the modern IDE.
    • Rochus 490 days ago
      It all started with Object Pascal and MacApp.
    • djr 490 days ago
      I am pretty sure I started with Think Pascal but we quickly moved to Think C and then Metrowerks (c compiler).

      The primary reason for moving to C was so we could share code between Windows 3.1 and Macintosh... which was terrible because of the different memory models between windows and macintosh.

      • bmonkey325 490 days ago
        All the API examples were in C and if you needed access to a new API that wasn't yet part of your compiler, it was easy enough to add on your own.
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