Exactly! Jobs picked BSD (1977), the NeXT GUI (1985/1988), and an object oriented version of C (1986) that came before C++ (1983)! (OK, BSD had been around a l

Exactly! Jobs picked BSD (1977), the NeXT GUI (1985/1988), and an object oriented version of C (1986) that came before C++ (1983)! (OK, BSD had been around a little while by that time, and C++ predated Objective C.) They are mature technologies now, but were all picked relatively early in their life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B