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How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people

HyperTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts – all wonderful tools in their day, but none has brought coding to the crowd.

September 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ultimately obfuscated coding

There may even be a few good reasons for you wanting to obfuscate your code. Perhaps you don’t […]

December 25, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Language wars

is Swift somehow superior to Objective-C? Or is it a second-class language for macOS? Do those questions have any meaning at all?

May 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: A Swift breeze blowing

It’s time to think of summer: that means macOS 10.13, APFS, and the future of scripting. Is Swift a suitable language?

February 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Programming playgrounds: Swift on an iPad?

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Swift Playgrounds brings programming to the iPad. But for whom – the student, improver, or developer?

September 17, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

RIP APLX, and welcome Dyalog APL for OS X

APLX, the OS X implementation of one of the oldest and most controversial computer languages, is no more. Long live Dyalog APL for OS X.

July 16, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Polyglot programmer: which languages support the GUI?

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Which of the friendly IDEs supports the creation of apps with ‘proper’ interfaces?

November 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

Polyglot programmer: some excellent programming environments for OS X

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A personal selection of some excellent and fascinating programming environments for OS X.

November 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

Tell Mac speak human

We who forge words into documents lack anything as powerful as Illustrator or Photoshop are to graphics.

May 8, 2015 General, Language, 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

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