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As other's note: Assembly and Pascal were the original system languages for the Macintosh. As I recall, C was not used until a year or two after the launch of t

As other's note: Assembly and Pascal were the original system languages for the Macintosh. As I recall, C was not used until a year or two after the launch of the Mac when Lightspeed C was released. (Lightspeed was later renamed Think C) Apple did not use C heavily until the OS was re-written in C++ in System 7 in 1991

saddino 14y ago
Which spawned Apple's MPW IDE and their MacApp C++ framework, which ultimately gave way to Metrowerks CodeWarrior and the PowerPlant C++ framework. It's actually pretty amazing that for most of the 90s Apple let Metrowerks own the developer experience. I always thought that Jobs' greatest triumph in pushing Rhapsody was bringing their developers back to using their own tools (though I suppose Carbon could be considered a short term loss).
pjmlp 14y ago
You can get lots of nice information about it here, Revolution in The Valley http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007195.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007195.do C only took over because of UNIX.