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Twenty nine years ago, Metrowerks Code Warrior was released https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrowerks

I had the shirt ( https://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=282427-M558... ) and wore it for many years... wish I knew where it was (if its still in one of my boxes somewhere).

The IDE was no where near as clunky as a text only DOS screen. https://www.macintoshrepository.org/577-codewarrior-pro-6

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The entire System 7 UI was really a thing of beauty.

The alternative was MPW which was awful! Long Live Code Warrior! Its debugging was probably a decade ahead of its time.

I still miss the simplicity and power of the Lightspeed/THINK IDEs for Pascal and C.

For me Metrowerks was a big step back in terms of complexity, speed and affordances.

The thing that I loved about MPW was MPW Shell and Commando, brilliant if you compare it to the state of the UNIX art at the time, probably tcsh, and still to this day feeling just a bit like the future.

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