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Think C! I had a computer programming class in high school, we got to pick our compiler out of a box of old software. For some reason it's what I chose, and sp

Think C! I had a computer programming class in high school, we got to pick our compiler out of a box of old software. For some reason it's what I chose, and spent the first day installing it from floppy disks. I am pretty sure the machine I used was a Macintosh LC III, already obsolete by the time I got my hands on it. But the other computers were Pentium 100's running Windows and I had a PC at home, so that wouldn't have been any fun. I later found out it became Symantec C, but I really only used Codewarrior for the rest of my Mac classic endeavors.

systemBuilder 5y ago
It was a great product and was the first widely available c compiler for the Macintosh. I purchased it (LightspeedC) for my Macintosh II for $100 in something like 1987. I was coming from Xerox office systems division to grad school and felt it was as good as our Xerox IDEs. Languages like Apple Pascal had too much of a banana Republic dictatorship underpinning (due to Nicklaus Wirth/European fascism) and didn't allow much freedom of expression. It's why Apple had to add so many extensions just to make Pascal usable and so many people moved to Think C. With a 3-second turnaround compiler and a decent IDE it was a great system.