They also had a pascal. Granted it was targeted to the IIGS rather than the straight II line, but given my personal experiences running apple pascal on a machine with only a single floppy drive it was just as well. In a way Jobs was right, BASIC+assembly were a better target for the 8 bit apple II than pcode and the long development turnaround time for pascal. Worse the resulting applications were slow, not just running but the extra delay loading the pascal system from 5.25" disk rarely made for a good user experience.
That said, to this day, I compare all new languages I learn to object pascal/delphi, and frankly I have yet to find one that seems as polished, productive, well documented, resistant to bugs, etc.
They also had a pascal. Granted it was targeted to the IIGS rather than the straight II line, but given my personal experiences running apple pascal on a machine with only a single floppy drive it was just as well. In a way Jobs was right, BASIC+assembly were a better target for the 8 bit apple II than pcode and the long development turnaround time for pascal. Worse the resulting applications were slow, not just running but the extra delay loading the pascal system from 5.25" disk rarely made for a good user experience.
That said, to this day, I compare all new languages I learn to object pascal/delphi, and frankly I have yet to find one that seems as polished, productive, well documented, resistant to bugs, etc.