🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <IY0io5y00UgPAM2b4a@andrew.cmu.edu> wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes:
>>> I believe that the Mac OS is written in Pascal.
>
>Very good. You are right about the old System stuff... but that isn't what
>we are talking about.  Apple is doing a COMPLETE REWRITE of the System--
>meaning that they are rewriting everything.  But this time 'round, they are
>supposedly at least going to use C, and there is a version of Finder being
>done in C++; what the final release versions will be is still up in the air,
>but it is very, very doubtful that Apple is going to do a rewrite in Pascal.

Very good.  I shall now give you another lesson in being condescending.  But
remember... you shall never be as good as I am.  The whole point of this
thread is that there is no value in doing speed comparisons, because you will
need all new applications to run under the new system.  Therefore, you might
as well compare to DOS 3.3, because it doesn't support the same overhead.
I am anxiously awaiting the new rewrite, even if it breaks all, as long as it
is in an object oriented format.  Yes, it is doubtful that they will do a
rewrite in Pascal, since the system is currently written in Assembly
language, and RISC chips are optimized for C.