Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Since 1984 [video]

Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by esusatyo on Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:27AM (#7124883)

Questions that the audience asked:

- Is there a version of BASIC?

- Is there a version of SmallTalk?

- After you become an expert, would the mouse became a feature or a handicap.

I really take the ability to write in almost any mainstream programming language on my Mac for granted.

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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by kalleboo on Sunday January 26, 2014 @12:36PM (#7125898)

> I really take the ability to write in almost any mainstream programming language on my Mac for granted.

Thank Stallman

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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by eropple on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:13PM (#7126370)

Why? NeXTSTEP was a Unix and had multiple programming languages available to it--in 1989, without FSF-related anythings. Apple packs GCC with OS X, but it's pretty jokey to think they wouldn't just have packed BSD's compiler instead (and now Clang, which exists in no small part because Stallman and company decided it was a great idea to make extending the compiler hard because ideology).

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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by asveikau on Sunday January 26, 2014 @09:37PM (#7128377)

Stop trolling. NeXTSTEP's objc compiler was based on GCC.

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