Re: Apple Mac Pascal

Richard Engebretson пишет:

> I just wanted to give credit to the Apple Mac for nurturing Pascal.
> And also point out the extraordinary progress made in this era.
Indeed.

I was once very surprised by the fact Apple had also something in common 
with Lisps. They've created their dialect of Lisp, Dylan!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_%28programming_language%29

before:
 > (bind ((radius 5)
 >        (cir***ference (* 2 $pi radius)))
 >   (if (> cir***ference 42)
 >       (format-out "Hello big circle! c is %=" cir***ference)
 >       (format-out "Hello circle! c is %=" cir***ference)))

after:
 > begin
 >  let radius = 5;
 >  let cir***ference = 2 * $pi * radius;
 >  if (cir***ference > 42)
 >     format-out("Hello, big circle! c = %=", cir***ference);
 >  else
 >     format-out("Hello, circle! c is %=", cir***ference);
 >  end if
 > end

Somewhat close to Pascal & Ada :) According to Wiki Apple's own 
implementation was code-named Leibniz.

And nowadays Apple went mainstream. They have no time for surprises 
anymore. Nobody has one. Era of wonders is over.

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