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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 366

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 366. Here are my solutions to them.

1: First unknown cipher now with playgrounds for 12-year olds.

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Xcode

First unknown (x in algebra) cipher (a code) now with playgrounds (these enable rapid development) for 12-year olds (Playgrounds were introduced on 2 June 2014, 12 years ago, and Xcode itself on 23 October 2003).

2: PBX came from next only to merge to form 1 three years later.

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Project Builder

PBX (its nickname) came from next (it was originally developed for NeXTSTEP, and came to DP4 of Mac OS X in May 2000) only to merge to form 1 three years later (in 2003 Xcode merged Project Builder with Interface Builder).

3: Studio for coding waterproofs first in Pascal will be 40 this September.

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Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW)

Studio (a workshop) for coding (programmers) waterproofs (Macintosh) first in Pascal (its first version only supported Pascal, and not C) will be 40 this September (written by Rick Meyers, Jeff Parrish and Dan Smith, it was released on 24 September 1986, almost 40 years ago).

The common factor

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They have been Apple’s primary development systems for Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.