{"id":6548,"date":"2012-11-12T21:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2012-11-12T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T04:17:37","slug":"andrew-singer-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/andrew-singer-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Singer, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rms2.tumblr.com\/post\/35571080444\/andrew-singer\">Rich Siegel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/rms2.tumblr.com\/post\/35571080444\/andrew-singer\"><p>The THINK products helped define the Mac software ecosystem in the 1980s, and I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s an overstatement to say that the THINK products, and Andrew&rsquo;s influence, made the Mac software industry successful at a crucial time. There&rsquo;s a great writeup <a href=\"http:\/\/basalgangster.macgui.com\/RetroMacComputing\/The_Long_View\/Entries\/2010\/3\/20_MacPascal_and_Think_Technologies.html\">here<\/a> (thanks to Philip for the link) about Macintosh Pascal and THINK Pascal and their effect on how Mac software was developed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2012-11-12): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=5507\">Clark Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=5507\"><p>It&rsquo;s hard to explain just how big a difference Think C was. There were many programming languages for the Mac but it honestly was shocking how poor Apple&rsquo;s own tools were. For several years you basically had to buy a Lisa just to write Mac programs. I tried several languages but it was really when Lightspeed C got me that I think I finally started writing real programs and not just small hacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Siegel: The THINK products helped define the Mac software ecosystem in the 1980s, and I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s an overstatement to say that the THINK products, and Andrew&rsquo;s influence, made the Mac software industry successful at a crucial time. There&rsquo;s a great writeup here (thanks to Philip for the link) about Macintosh Pascal and [&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":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-rip"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","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=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}