John SiracusaMar 18

My decades-long shelf-space crunch continues. The latest eviction victim: this old chonker.

Love the pages of ads in the back of the book. Oh, and several empty, lined pages for you to write your own notes.

Show threadJohn Siracusa
If you’re wondering what Mac programming was like back then, take a look.
Mar 18 at 9:19pmIvory for iOS
Show threadRosyna KellerMar 18
@siracusa How many times does it say to call MoreMasters()?
Show threadMike SaxMar 18
@siracusa This may sound like a humble brag but I was really expecting PASCAL…
Show threadSteven LiptonMar 19
@mikesax @siracusa if you insist
Show threadGlenda AdamsMar 19
@MakeAppPie @mikesax @siracusa ohhh I miss Pascal
Show threadSchamschulaMar 18
@siracusa I still have Inside Macintosh, Volumes I-VI sitting on the shelf. Rather dusty!
Show threadSteve BarnesMar 18

@siracusa –

I picked up the convention of using a prefixed "the-" for an argument meant to live through a single function call while learning to use HyperCard in grade school. It seemed to have gone out of style by the time I later sat down to learn Objective-C for iOS.

Show threadMutesplashMar 18
@siracusa TBH this looks way easier than any of the stuff they have going on now
Show threadMikey T.Mar 18
@siracusa inMenuBar appears twice in the diagram. Coulda used a little more editing there 🤣
Show threaddented42Mar 18
@siracusa I’ve been living this on my SE and Quadra 650. It’s been a lot of fun.
Show threadgenehackMar 19
@siracusa the thing is (was?), Metrowerks had the absolutely coolest branding for a compiler EVER. Gotta hand it to them.
Show threadKarl BaronMar 19

@siracusa I only ever used HyperCard and REALBasic back in the day, before PHP became a thing and I moved into web and later iOS

For #MARCHintosh this year my challenge was to write classic Mac programs from scratch using only Toolbox/C (no helpful C++ frameworks) and fulfill my dream of becoming a "real Mac developer"

Ended up making AppleTalk networking tools for #GlobalTalk - a chat client, a pixel canvas and a zone scanner

So many hours of MacsBug… including deciphering user bug reports…

Show threadAlex McRobertsMar 19
“When a mouse-click occurs in the go away box”. The go away box? The. Go. Away. Box. Why am I only learning this name today?!? Amazing!
Show threadSlaíneMar 21
@siracusa currently exploring this world with Think C on my Quadra.