Macintosh Graphics in Modula-2 by Russell L. Schnapp
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Although the book itself seems to be of no particular note, it does feature Susan Kare’s New York as it is intended to be seen: In all its pixel glory. The cover is a mock-up of window graphics done in the pixel style of the Macintosh era; it may even not be a mock-up, it could be produced directly from Macintosh System Software screen graphics. The window titles are in Chicago, the same as the window title font in the Macintosh System.
Modula-2 was a popular programming language at universities (created by Niklaus Wirth and probably helped in academia by his association with ETH Zurich), and was used for some systems programming, but never became a well-known or well-used programming language on the Macintosh.
3 Comments on “Macintosh Graphics in Modula-2 by Russell L. Schnapp”
It’s not a mock-up. Check the copyright date.
I provided the graphics and someone at Prentice-Hall composed the cover, and choose the unflattering colors.
…and I’m not sure you could say that Modula-2 was ever “popular”. It was a step in the direction of object oriented languages.
FWIW i meant mock-up in the sense of done in a (contemporary) art program, as opposed to copied directly out of the frame buffer. I’m also saying that i can’t tell, because the likeness is exact.