[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hills_Software
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Wor...
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20140528005901/http://lists.appl...
The Green Hills folks were likewise upset at Roger's effort. "Anyone who says they can write a compiler in a year should be fired." Roger himself held the same opinion, a couple of years later :-)
I sat next to Roger while he wrote that thing, he was in the next cubie over (I was working on the MPW linker and some other tools). He types really fast.
Nonsense.
Three of us did it in a year compiling a language similar to PL/M written in Bliss 36 on a PDP-10. And that was when compilers were much harder to do then than they are now.
...why?
I did find this press release, but it really just raises more questions than answers anything. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ubm-electronics-and...
https://www.ghs.com/news/20110427_esc_silicon_valley11.html
Sounds like GH's founder just really likes dinosaurs. (To be clear, if I was in that kind of financial position, I'd absolutely have a T-rex skull, or better yet the whole dinosaur, on display in the lobby).
I had forgotten about these.
I think my first real push with MPW was using it as an environment to host the AT&T C++ compiler, which at that time was still a bunch of preprocessor macros written by Bjarne himself.
Not specifically related to MPW, more about the times, a clean compile of the Quickdraw GX framework took something like eight hours. (Fortunately incremental builds were much quicker.) Nonetheless, it was common to kick off a clean build as you were leaving the office for the night.
Funny to think about that compiler compiling all night as I had dinner, watched a little cable TV, got some sleep....
Was QuickDraw GX also known as Skia, perhaps earlier in its life?
A very underrated, idiosyncratic, clever development environment, somehow more reminiscent of Poplog than anything else I've used.
“Humor can enhance documentation by adding to a reader’s enjoyment and by helping to lighten the tone. Humor usually works best in examples, where it’s less likely to distract the reader. Be careful that your humor is in good taste—one reader’s joke can be another reader’s insult—and keep in mind that humor may not translate well in localized text.”
I want it to give helpful, accurate advice as succinctly as possible.
I get this issue a lot on modern compilers, when trying to write switch/macro-based coroutines (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html) in C++. Does anyone have a workaround? (I hope it doesn't involve C++20 coroutines... I still don't understand them.)
Not possible any more!!!
EDIT: Sibling beat me by a couple minutes. DO great minds really think alike?
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor.funny/c/knG5ONlInXM/m/...
Object Pascal.
MacApp.
Ahh, memories. (Some of them are even _good_ memories! ;-) )
