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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 318

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 318. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Fastest insectivore on the wing with playgrounds, for 11 years.

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Swift

Fastest insectivore on the wing (swifts are among the fastest birds in level flight, and eat insects) with playgrounds (an educational implementation introduced in 2016), for 11 years (first released in June 2014)

2: Purpose for father of probability when Niklaus and Larry collaborated.

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Object Pascal

Purpose (object) for father of probability (Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French mathematician and developer of probability theory with Fermat) when Niklaus (Wirth, 1934-2024, who designed Pascal in 1970) and Larry (Tesler of Apple, 1945-2020) collaborated (they worked together to design the language in 1985, and it was the primary development language for Macs from 1986-91).

3: Third letter incremented 40 years ago by this Dane.

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C++

Third letter (C) incremented (what the ++ operator does) 40 years ago (first released in 1985 as an extension to C) by this Dane (Bjarne Stroustrup, its original designer, is Danish). (C++ became the primary development language for Macs in 1991.)

The common factor

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They have each been a primary development language for Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.