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I wonder what programming language is being used to create applications we use daily, such as Photoshop, Flash, Word, browsers . . . I googled a couple of minutes, but wasn't able to find anything. Is it Java, C++ or something else? Is that information available to the public at all, or is it kept secret?
:: Sasha, at 12:00 am on Monday, 14. January 2002
This is a guess, but I reckon it's C. You'd imagine something incredibly high-powered, but then again the mac finder was written in pascal...
:: joel hopwood, at 04:42 am on Tuesday, 15. January 2002
FYI I asked the same question here:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/000617.html
:: Sasha, at 07:50 am on Tuesday, 15. January 2002
Versions 4 and below of Photoshop were written in an IDE called MacApp which I *think* uses some oddball Mac-only variant of C. I am reasonably sure that modern versions on all platforms are in C, mixed with assembly for speed.
P.S. The System 7 Finder was written entirely in Pascal. 7.5.x through 8.x contain bits and pieces of old legacy Pascal code, but 9 dropped them in favor of the quasi-simplified toolbox known as Carbon. OS X is in objective C (Cocoa), I believe.
System 7 -- woo hoo!
:: Leam, at 12:41 pm on Wednesday, 16. January 2002
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