Ancestors

Written by Nick Fox-Gieg on 2024-10-10 at 12:23

Boosting for a friend looking for PowerPC (as in Classic Mac) developers... cc @mediaarchaeologylab

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Written by Alexander Cobleigh on 2024-10-10 at 14:57

@n1ckfg cc @neauoire you are oddly suitable for this job ad X)

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Written by Devine Lu Linvega on 2024-10-10 at 15:04

@cblgh @n1ckfg I've never actually wrote anything for OS 9, only in Pascal for OS 7 and 8.

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Written by Alexander Cobleigh on 2024-10-10 at 15:50

@neauoire i figured that might be a sticking point :) you think the difference is significant from 8 to 9? i only touched OS7 as part of the hypercard jam :]

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Written by Devine Lu Linvega on 2024-10-10 at 15:51

@cblgh I think apple might have ditched Pascal after OS 8, but I'm not sure. Maybe @d6 knows some more about OS9 dev, or even knows someone who can help

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Written by ∴ a highly-entropic being ∴ on 2024-10-10 at 16:12

@neauoire @cblgh i didn't do any computer programming until college, so i never wrote anything for pre-osx macs.

from what i can tell pascal, c, and c++ were all supported through macos 9. at least, MPW supported them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer's_Workshop

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Written by ∴ a highly-entropic being ∴ on 2024-10-10 at 16:14

@neauoire @cblgh oh, but actually you are probably right:

Pascal support was no longer provided by the mid-90s due to declining popularity of the language.

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Written by mcc on 2024-10-10 at 16:18

@d6 @neauoire @cblgh Don't quote me on this but I think they might have still been using pascal compatible ABIs until the end. So "not supported" might have only meant "not supported" not "not supported".

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Written by mcc on 2024-10-10 at 16:19

@d6 @neauoire @cblgh like, would very late APIs like Thread Manager have worked in Pascal or would late 90s Pascal code have been limited to Pascal-officially-supported-era APIs? I don't know

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Toot

Written by cancel on 2024-10-10 at 18:14

@mcc @d6 @neauoire @cblgh Yeah they work. CodeWarrior had a Pascal compiler and IDE for PowerPC.

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Descendants

Written by cancel on 2024-10-10 at 18:15

@mcc @d6 @neauoire @cblgh You could even mix and match it with C and C++ code in the same project. What a world.

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