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It was my birthday present when I was 11, after drooling over it in the MacMall catalog for months and begging my parents every time I thought I could risk it..
by matheweis 11y ago
It was my birthday present when I was 11, after drooling over it in the MacMall catalog for months and begging my parents every time I thought I could risk it... CodeWarrior was like the Christmas Story kid's BB Gun for me. I think they must have found the academic discount, there's no way they could have afforded the $400.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into, I just knew I needed a good "compiler" to make "programs". Apple's IDE (MPW?) was really horrendous by comparison - I was unable to get anywhere with it.
I also literally learned how to write C in CodeWarrior. I wish I could find the CodeWarrior people and tell them how influential it was.
- threeio 11y agoI have a picture from when I was 11 standing outside of Borland HQ with my boxed copy of Turbo Pascal somewhere... I feel your joy.
- setpatchaddress 11y agoPretty sure they know. It's not exaggerating (much) to say that CodeWarrior is the primary reason Mac developers stayed with the platform during the 68K to PowerPC transition. The pre-2.0 CodeWarrior IDE was the simplest and fastest way to produce Mac software in the mid-nineties.
- jason_slack 11y agoI still talk with 2 members of the Codewarrior team periodically! Met them in the 90's on the usegroups.
- matheweis 11y agoAwesome! If you could pass this their way that'd be so neat. :)