Apple’s classic Pascal poster, remade as a vector image [pdf]

Source: Hacker News

Article note: It's quite pretty, very much something danamania/nanoraptor would reproduce, interestingly historical without context, AND its context is an absolutely classic Apple story ( https://vintagecomputer.ca/the-history-of-apples-pascal-syntax-poster-1979-80/ ). Jef Raskin made a lovely color-coded explainer of Pascal syntax that exactly matched the behavior of Bill Atkinson's Apple Pascal compiler, and showed it to Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs didn't understand the color coding, handed it to a hip artist buddy (Tom Kamifuji) to finish off without communicating that the colors were meaningful so they got mangled, then only put Kamifuji's name on the final product.
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