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> MacIntosh :) They'll probably program it in "C", and then in the 1990s move on to JAVA, with some software in PERL.

• fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
  I think the Lisa was programmed in Pascal
  • msla 7y ago
    Thank you for proving the point that people simply cannot see the difference between "C" and C. Or JAVA and Java. Or PERL and Perl. One wonders how many people are, right this very moment, writing code in C# because they fail to see a difference between C# and C++...
  • msla 7y ago
    I guess most people really can't distinguish between "C" and C.
    • fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
      Perhaps you should tell us the difference
• derefr 7y ago
  Was C ever really named "C" with the quotes? Was it supposed to be a reference—were "C-style strings" a key innovation of C over BCPL or something?
  • msla 7y ago
    > Was C ever really named "C" with the quotes? No, it wasn't, but it gets called that often enough for me to have made a joke about it.
• pjmlp 7y ago
  Apple platforms were mostly developed in Object Pascal and Assembly, until they added support for C and C++, with MPW and Metrowerks compilers. Then it was mostly in C++. Apple platforms never were big C fans.
  • msla 7y ago
    > Apple platforms never were big C fans. Ah, but were they "C" fans? Never mind. My joke apparently went over everyone's head.