Apple Dylan IDE (2014)

Re:Apple Dylan IDE (2014) by threeseed on Saturday June 03, 2017 @10:51PM (#14479667)

It's always interesting to look back on those days at Apple when they were so innovative and took so many risks when it came to software. Technologies like OpenDoc, Cyberdog, Hypercard, AppleScript, Taligent were really quite unique.

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Re:Apple Dylan IDE (2014) by gilgoomesh on Sunday June 04, 2017 @03:33AM (#14480296)

You clearly never used Taligent and OpenDoc. They were innovation by committee and completely revolting. You can read the introductory Taligent tutorial here:

https://root.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoo...

As for Hypercard... it wasn't Apple's innovation but Bill Atkinson's (he designed and wrote the whole thing). Once Bill left (6 months later), no one else was really able to manage the codebase and it rotted for a decade or two until it was finally cancelled.

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Re:Apple Dylan IDE (2014) by atjamielittle on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:03PM (#14479703)

I've really been enjoying reading Brent Simmons blog about his efforts to get Frontier running on modern macOS:

http://inessential.com/frontierdiary

I suppose that Apple Dylan was similar to Frontier in the sense that they were programming environments built around an object databases. Frontier was a shipping product though!

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Re:Apple Dylan IDE (2014) by Volt on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:14PM (#14479723)

Back when they actually had an R&D department.

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Re:Apple Dylan IDE (2014) by frozenport on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:09AM (#14479986)

Hypercard should not be on that list, it was succeful despite official neglect.

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