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> MPW was a submarine project, from UNIX background engineers, to eventually replace Pascal with C++. According to Wikipedia, the first commercial C++ implemen
by musicale 5mo ago
> MPW was a submarine project, from UNIX background engineers, to eventually replace Pascal with C++.
According to Wikipedia, the first commercial C++ implementation came out in October of 1985, MPW was released in September of 1986, and MPW C was released in July of 1987.
C++ seems to have been added sometime in ~1988 (??)
Think C 4.0 (later Symantec C/C++) with (C++ like) object extensions seems to have been released for the Mac in 1989.
- pjmlp 4mo agoYou missed the MacApp part for doing Mac OS development. And the later collaboration with Metrowerks and the PowerPlant framework. I mentioned the podcast, because Wikipedia is not the source of universal truth.
- musicale 4mo agoI was just trying to put the timeline together, as C++ doesn't seem to have been particularly production-ready when MPW was released (though I could imagine it had fans anyway.) Also Think C has been mentioned on HN a few times. I looked at the intro to some of the MPW C++ documentation (before posting above, thank you internet) and I think it said that MacApp could be used via the C++ to Object Pascal bridge and that a native C++ framework would be forthcoming.