I had Personal Pascal and Megamax Modula-2 on my ST. Great software. But most people used GFA Basic, which was structured, compiling, BASIC with a Pascal sheen

I had Personal Pascal and Megamax Modula-2 on my ST. Great software. But most people used GFA Basic, which was structured, compiling, BASIC with a Pascal sheen to it. Or, if they were serious, they used C. The API for the AES and VDI was developed with C in mind, because it was written in C. Void pointers all over, stuff that Wirth-languages despised. GEM/TOS bindings for other languages were terrible, I never got Modula-2 to work well for GEM development, it simply didn't ship with bindings for it. I didn't have a C compiler, so to do anything GEM-ish... it was GFA. But TFA is about the early 80s, and is out to lunch. Only professionals with expensive PCs had access to C and Pascal in the early 80s. Though I guess there were Pascal dialects in the Apple II world, they weren't that commonly used.