April 27th, 2009
Mike Levins on his favorite programming language:
I used to say it was 1992-era Dylan. Dylan was a Lisp that Apple invented. I worked for several years on Apple’s Newton project. Newton was initially written mostly in Dylan, and I got to write a lot of OS code in Dylan. That was a time of high joy in my programming life.
It didn’t last, of course. The story of Newton’s abandonment of Dylan and its other adventures makes entertaining reading, but the short of it is that eventually I had to stop programming in Dylan.
Turns out Dylan is still around, but Levins has moved on to a Lisp dialect called Clojure.
Posted by davelawrence8 at 6:48 am on April 27th, 2009. Categories: newton history, software. Tags: apple, clojure, code, dylan, language, lisp, messagepad, newton, OS, programming. Subscribe via RSS.
August 5th, 2008
Wondering what that error code your Newton just spat at you means?
Wonder no more, thanks to UNNA’s NewtonOS Error Database, a searchable reference that lets you look for your error code by number, description, or comments from other users. There is also a drop-down list where you can browse error codes by category, like “Data Link Layers” and “Serial Tool.”
Thanks to Matthew Reidsma on the Newtontalk list for the link. Joel over at Inventor’s Emporium posted a Newton eBook of all the OS 2.x error codes, too. Handy!
Posted by davelawrence8 at 7:09 am on August 5th, 2008. Categories: newton. Tags: apple, code, database, error, messagepad, newton, search, UNNA. Subscribe via RSS.
