I learnt to programme on a Mac Plus using Pascal (Lightspeed? I cannot remember the brand). Inside Macintosh is still, after thirty years, in a box some place

I learnt to programme on a Mac Plus using Pascal (Lightspeed? I cannot remember the brand). Inside Macintosh is still, after thirty years, in a box some place. I will never throw it out. Well thumbed, and very useful. Been nearly a year back with Apple hardware now. What a change! The tools are very flash, but nothing quite works. The easy bits are done, feels like 95% of perfect. The documentation is good if you just need to be reminded, but if you need anything to help in the early part of the learning curve, it is third party blogs, (that really feel to me like astro turf, but they do exist). The licensing! Why do I keep getting blocked from using hardware bought and paid for! My colleagues and I have spent, literally, days trying to get me into some sort of licensing scheme - truly Kafkaesque. It feels a lot like Linux in 1997 - mostly works and brimming with potential. But whilst Linux was on its way up in 1997, Apple feels like it is on its way down. And they are busy fighting to keep quasi legal monopolies instead of fixing the last few problems in their tools and writing proper documentation. What a shame