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A brief history of primary coding languages

From Lisa Clascal, used until the Mac got its own development environment in MPW and Object Pascal, to Swift, Apple has changed direction every decade.

July 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Who’s afraid of the big, bad buffer?

I never thought that I’d be writing C in Swift, even down to handling null-terminated strings. But the code works.

April 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Will we Go or Rust?

If the designers of Go and Rust had read the work of Sapir and Whorf, they would have realised that to accomplish real change in programming requires greater change in the language used.

April 30, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

C Double Sharp

In both fiction and reality, some partners have wonderfully deep emotional responses to certain languages. Without giving any […]

April 20, 2015 Macs, Technology

A C of Insecurity

Like the moth which flies miles to contact an irresistible lantern, only to die in its flame, the C languages continue to draw programmers to their nemesis.

April 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology
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