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Very cool. I wasn’t aware of resource and data forks, having grown up coding on DOS and then Linux. It’s pretty neat how stuff was loaded in as needed and then
by fmakunbound 6y ago
Very cool. I wasn’t aware of resource and data forks, having grown up coding on DOS and then Linux. It’s pretty neat how stuff was loaded in as needed and then freed afterwards (eg. that list def he mentioned, with the assembly language icon graphic).
- duskwuff 6y agoThe classic Mac OS concepts of resources and handles were brilliant. They were hamstrung a bit by C and Pascal, which didn't provide tools for ensuring you interacted with handles appropriately; I have to imagine that a modern language might handle this better.