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Lisa Source Code: Clascal Evolution

Sunday, February 5, 2023

Here’s another interesting thing I’ve learned about Clascal and Object Pascal: It went through exactly the same evolution from combining object allocation & initialization to separating them that Objective-C did a decade later! In early 1983 Clascal, classes were expected to implement a New method as a function returning that type, taking zero or more […]

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Lisa Source Code: Understanding Clascal

Saturday, February 4, 2023

On January 19, Apple and the Computer History Museum released the source code to the Lisa Office System 7/7 version 3.1, including both the complete Office System application suite and the Lisa operating system. (The main components not released were the Workshop environment and its tooling, including the Edit application and the Pascal, COBOL, BASIC, […]

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Rebutting Big Nerd Ranch on Objective-C 2.0 dot notation

Friday, August 7, 2009

The Big Nerd Ranch weblog has a new post about Objective-C 2.0 dot notation. They advocate never using it and they’re completely wrong. Given my reaction on Twitter, several people have asked me to write a more in-depth rebuttal. I’ve already addressed when and why you should use Objective-C 2.0 properties and dot notation in […]

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When to use properties & dot notation

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I listened to a recent episode of the [cocoaFusion:][1] podcast about properties and dot notation today. There were a few interesting points brought up, but I felt a couple of the most important reasons to use `@property` declarations and dot notation weren’t addressed. The biggest reason I see to use a different notation for both […]

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Steve Yegge describes what’s wrong with Lisp

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Steve Yegge, Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp: You’ve all read about the Road to Lisp. I was on it for a little over a year. It’s a great road, very enlightening, blah blah blah, but what they fail to mention is that Lisp isn’t the at the end of it. Lisp is just the […]

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