<story><title>Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)</title><url>http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>todd8</author><text>While at Texas Instruments, around 1976, I was in the group trying to move the company to use a more modern programming language. I had learned Pascal while in grad school by studying Wirth’s compiler source so I was happy to be in this department. We had built a commercial, extended, Pascal that ran on the company’s own hardware, microprocessors though minicomputers.&lt;p&gt;The goal was to move the COBOL, Fortran, JOVIAL, and assembly language programmers in the company to Pascal. My department built the compiler and because I had taught programming in grad school I ended up being one of the evangelists that taught innumerable one week crash courses to the company’s engineers, business programmers, and software people. It was actually a really fun job and I met a large number of people that worked in the company’s various branches.&lt;p&gt;I discovered that there is no better way to learn every facet of something than to teach it, more than once, to grumpy students sceptical of the new fangled concepts.&lt;p&gt;A couple years later I was back in grad school again, still programming in Pascal. It was interesting to realize that most fellow PhD students that go straight through aren’t really good programmers and don’t understand software engineering. (This was a long time ago so it’s probably very different now. CS students own their own computers and are able to program much more than we could.)&lt;p&gt;I remember Pascal fondly like some friends remember their first car. Like cars though, the new languages are really much better (safer, faster, more reliable, etc).</text></comment>
<story><title>Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)</title><url>http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdrothrock</author><text>&amp;gt; His brother John, working at the movie visual effects company Industrial Light &amp;amp; Magic, found it useful for editing photos, but it wasn’t intended to be a product.&lt;p&gt;John Knoll is a name that may be familiar to people who stick around after the credits; he was ILM&amp;#x27;s supervisor on Generations and First Contact, all the Star Wars prequels, some Harry Potter movies, as well as some of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. His name comes up a lot in behind-the-scenes interviews etc. with directors about effects.</text></comment>