{"id":37956,"date":"2022-12-23T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37956"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T20:21:34","slug":"30-years-of-pcalc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/23\/30-years-of-pcalc\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of PCalc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcalc.com\/mac\/thirty.html\">James Thomson<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jamesthomson\/109562907458479500\">Mastodon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pcalc.com\/mac\/thirty.html\"><p>At around the same time, we&rsquo;d started coding using THINK Pascal, and I had begun to explore the Macintosh programming APIs in my own time.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The Pascal core mathematics code was hand-translated into C, and a new user interface was written around it in C++.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In 2005, I rewrote PCalc once again. This time, it was to learn the new Carbon HIToolbox APIs - this was a different way of writing an application, somewhat similar to PowerPlant, but provided by Apple.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I took the code I&rsquo;d written for the Dashboard Widget version of PCalc, and got that running within a day or two on the iPhone. From there, I wrote a completely new interface around it, this time in Cocoa.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Well before the days of Mac Catalyst, this new version was actually based on the iOS source code[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/congratulations\/\">Congratulations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Thomson (Mastodon): At around the same time, we&rsquo;d started coding using THINK Pascal, and I had begun to explore the Macintosh programming APIs in my own time.[&#8230;]The Pascal core mathematics code was hand-translated into C, and a new user interface was written around it in C++.[&#8230;]In 2005, I rewrote PCalc once again. This time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-12-23T19:24:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"ca5c5d25-3967-40c6-8504-d14c3260d3d3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-12-23T20:21:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AylxdJTlnQMaFBNFMMmDT0w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2070,31,2185,26,30,32,2223,442],"class_list":["post-37956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anniversary","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-pcalc"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37972,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions\/37972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}