In article , aracari
wrote:
> >Not quite true. The Mac development environment (the name of which
> >eludes me at the moment) did indeed have a command line and it ran on
> >the original Mac OS.
>
> And I presume the primary purpose of that was to provide a vehicle
> for testing programs during development?
nope. mpw was a full fledged development environment that included c,
c++, pascal and assembly (other languages could be added by third
parties, such as fortran) as well as a multi-window text editor and a
source level debugger. it could also be scripted and was suitable for
larger software projects.
and as i mentioned elsewhere, it came later, about 3 years after the
mac first shipped (there were other ways to write software before
that). |