Michael Long
1 min readNov 18, 2022

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Borland's Turbo Pascal was a product available on the IBM PC and useful for creating applications for Windows.

But since Turbo Pascal wasn't released until 1983, I doubt it was used to create applications for the Lisa... also released in January 1983.

Actually, I don't have to "doubt", since I happen to know Lisa software was created in assembly and Clascal. Later, another version called Object Pascal (still not Borlands) could be used to build MacApp-based applications that ran on the Macintosh.

Moving on, "Outside of the AI world, LISP has not been very successful." Umm... Okay. Guess it's good that the AI world isn't really that important.

Recently while looking for a new job I had a recruiter hit me up because of some SmallTalk experience. Guess someone's still using it.

And on. While quite a few of these have mostly passed away, like me, not all of them are gone quite yet. They may be far from mainstream, but they're not gone. ;)

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Michael Long
Michael Long

Written by Michael Long

I write about Apple, Swift, and SwiftUI in particular, and technology in general. I'm also a Lead iOS Engineer at InRhythm, a modern digital consulting firm.

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