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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: languages used with commercial software
Message-ID: <12410@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Mar 90 07:51:35 GMT
References: <18753@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <18753@boulder.Colorado.EDU> barnard@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (BARNARD DALE AARON) writes:
>Out of curiousity, what languages are used in the software that we see in the
>stores for Apple IIe?  For example, in what language is Appleworks programmed?
>How about games?

I've seen everything from 6502 assembler through BASIC to Pascal and C.
Given currently available compilers for the 8-bit Apples, really time-
critical programs such as arcade games are most likely coded in assembler.
Wizardry was done in Apple (UCSD) Pascal.  Sierra On-Line's recent games,
like Infocom's, are coded in a special game programming language that is
interpreted by a fast run-time support system coded in assembler.
The Claris folks will probably tell you about AppleWorks; similar products
on other systems are often coded in a mixture of C and assembler (mostly C);
unfortunately there hasn't been a fully satisfactory C compiler for the
8-bit Apples, which has been one factor in retarding software availability
for them.  (Their puny RAM and disk capacity is a larger factor, though.)