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An article from 2013 with an adobe photoshop version 1.x from 1990....

by stockhorn 2y ago

boomskats 2y ago
I'm pretty sure half of that code is still running in WASM on photoshop.adobe.com
- msk-lywenn 2y ago
  You mean current photoshop includes pascal code?
  - madeofpalk 2y ago
    I would not be surprised if it does. Photoshop is big and has a lot of legacy.
    - _mlbt 2y ago
      I have a feeling that much of it was translated to C or C++ at some point for portability and maintainability reasons. There are several automated Pascal to C translators out there, such as the following... http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/p2c/ http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/p2c/ Also the languages are similar enough that a programmer with knowledge of both could translate it manually without too much difficulty.
      - dunham 2y ago
        Typically TeX is translated from Pascal to C too, via web2c. But there also is a Pascal to WASM compiler out there, which was written specifically for TeX: https://github.com/kisonecat/web2js https://github.com/kisonecat/web2js TeX itself is only about 500kb of wasm, uncompressed, but the memory images with LaTeX loaded are quite a bit larger.
  - wongarsu 2y ago
    What's wrong with Pascal, apart from the ability to hire developers for it?
    - p0w3n3d 2y ago
      Writing in Pascal itself is a Job Preservation Pattern
    - PaulHoule 2y ago
      I hated the dialects of Pascal we were using at school in the early 1980s because they didn’t really support systems programming but after I got a 286 machine I got into Turbo Pascal which did have the extensions I need and that I preferred greatly to C but I switched to C in college because I could write C programs and run them on my PC or on Sun workstations with a 32 bit address space.
    - miohtama 2y ago
      Turbo Pascal and later Delphi were really nice, but I guess in the same vertical C won due to its UNIX legacy. You can pretty much transform 1:1 between C and Pascal code.
    - msk-lywenn 2y ago
      Nothing wrong, just surprised
  - callalex 2y ago
    Tools used for art often get irrationally preserved for the sake of it. For example I have had a conversation with more than one person (well 2 but still) who believed unironically that the wiring inside vintage guitars and amps must be coated with asbestos insulation or it would change the tone/texture of the sound.
    - PaulHoule 2y ago
      Don’t crush that in a hydraulic press.
  - MontagFTB 2y ago
    It was transpiled to C and then C++ many years ago.

An article from 2013 with an adobe photoshop version 1.x from 1990....

boomskats 2y ago

I'm pretty sure half of that code is still running in WASM on photoshop.adobe.com

msk-lywenn 2y ago
You mean current photoshop includes pascal code?
- madeofpalk 2y ago
  I would not be surprised if it does. Photoshop is big and has a lot of legacy.
  - _mlbt 2y ago
    I have a feeling that much of it was translated to C or C++ at some point for portability and maintainability reasons. There are several automated Pascal to C translators out there, such as the following... http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/p2c/ http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/p2c/ Also the languages are similar enough that a programmer with knowledge of both could translate it manually without too much difficulty.
    - dunham 2y ago
      Typically TeX is translated from Pascal to C too, via web2c. But there also is a Pascal to WASM compiler out there, which was written specifically for TeX: https://github.com/kisonecat/web2js https://github.com/kisonecat/web2js TeX itself is only about 500kb of wasm, uncompressed, but the memory images with LaTeX loaded are quite a bit larger.
- wongarsu 2y ago
  What's wrong with Pascal, apart from the ability to hire developers for it?
  - p0w3n3d 2y ago
    Writing in Pascal itself is a Job Preservation Pattern
  - PaulHoule 2y ago
    I hated the dialects of Pascal we were using at school in the early 1980s because they didn’t really support systems programming but after I got a 286 machine I got into Turbo Pascal which did have the extensions I need and that I preferred greatly to C but I switched to C in college because I could write C programs and run them on my PC or on Sun workstations with a 32 bit address space.
  - miohtama 2y ago
    Turbo Pascal and later Delphi were really nice, but I guess in the same vertical C won due to its UNIX legacy. You can pretty much transform 1:1 between C and Pascal code.
  - msk-lywenn 2y ago
    Nothing wrong, just surprised
- callalex 2y ago
  Tools used for art often get irrationally preserved for the sake of it. For example I have had a conversation with more than one person (well 2 but still) who believed unironically that the wiring inside vintage guitars and amps must be coated with asbestos insulation or it would change the tone/texture of the sound.
  - PaulHoule 2y ago
    Don’t crush that in a hydraulic press.
- MontagFTB 2y ago
  It was transpiled to C and then C++ many years ago.