@haiku_brian @hacks4pancakes oh, ya, good job I got a #newtonScript IDE sorted ...
I’ve been meaning to try 10PRINT in #NewtonScript or #NSBASIC for ages.
https://typo.social/@drj/115463956951293218
David JONES (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image An adaption of 10PRINT to the ZX81. Video captured with the sz81 emulator. #10print #ZX81 #Retrocomputing

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@eschaton @gruber Thanks for the heads up on this!

I'll supplement the links on the #NewtonScript website (https://newtonscript.org) with these PDFs. The site currently links to the somewhat-broken (often missing images & code samples) MacTech Magazine archives.

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NewtonScript

Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the release of Newton Toolkit 1.5, an “enhanced” version featuring a new #NewtonScript compiler and profiler, as well as Newton Book Maker 1.1 for Mac OS.

Thirty. Years.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19990210063408/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1995/q4/950711.pr.rel.newton.html

Enhanced Newton Toolkit, Reduced Prices

Enhanced Newton Toolkit, Reduced Prices

Twenty eight years ago today, Apple shipped its Newton Toolkit development tool for Windows. “[It] gives developers the platform independence they desire.”

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing
#NewtonScript

https://web.archive.org/web/19990203180056/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970326.pr.rel.nwtoolkit.html

Apple Ships Newton Toolkit for Windows 1.6

Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the availability of Newton Toolkit for Windows 1.6, an object-oriented development tool that enables Windows programmers to develop software for Newton OS-based mobile computers, including the new MessagePad 2000.

Twenty nine years ago today, Apple announced Newton Toolkit 1.6 with full support of #NewtonOS 2.0 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

“… a new standard for integration between PDAs and personal computers.”

#AppleNewton
#NewtonScript
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19990117021427/http://product.info.apple.com:80/pr/press.releases/1996/q2/960108.pr.rel.newton2.html

Apple Announces Expanded and Updated Development Environment for the Newton 2.0 Platform

Apple Announces Expanded and Updated Development Environment for the Newton 2.0 Platform

Twenty nine years ago today, Apple announced the release of Newton Toolkit 1.5, an “enhanced” version featuring a new #NewtonScript compiler and profiler, as well as Newton Book Maker 1.1 for Mac OS.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19990210063408/http://product.info.apple.com:80/pr/press.releases/1995/q4/950711.pr.rel.newton.html

Enhanced Newton Toolkit, Reduced Prices

Enhanced Newton Toolkit, Reduced Prices

@Ezhik It's often thought that #JavaScript was inspired by #NewtonScript, but I think it is probably not the case.

Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576164, "Eich says in an interview he never saw NewtonScript before designing JS."

I think the following is a bit inaccurate. > And NewtonScript influenced the cre... | Hacker News

@Ezhik Yup. They're both inspired by the Self programming language and ultimately are quite similar, with the exception of #NewtonScript being more well thought-out (warning: my own opinion!) and the differential inheritance introduced by NewtonScript is a _huge_ memory savings with minimal performance impact.
@Ezhik You mean, like #NewtonScript?