Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
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Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#2I miss this kind of playfulness in computing.
When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kitty.jpg, though. It’s since been changed again to rotating pictures and references to the original are gone.
Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#3I had NFI what MPW was until I read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...
Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#4"Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious"
That, Sir, is none of your business.
Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#5Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238928
To inline my comment in the previous thread:
Just for some context, the MPW C compiler that produced those messages was actually not developed internally at Apple, but was rather done by Green Hills Software [1] under contract as mentioned on the wikipedia page [2] and its source [3] which is funnily enough about this exact same topic.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hills_Software
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Wor...
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20140528005901/http://lists.appl...
Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#6there were also MetroWerks bindings for MPW, long ago, but Apple killed it with fire
Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#7I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
Maybe the daughter sued for copyright infringement when she turned 18. ;)
Serious question: Is this possible when a guardian gave consent earlier?
Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#8I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
> The compiler is 324k in size
Playfulness isn't the only thing we've lost. Software bloat has reached comedic levels.
Re: Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
#9I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
> I miss this kind of playfulness in computing.
it's still right here every day when Firefox says "gah this tab crashed".
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