The following is an adaption of an article which appeared in the November 2, 1984 edition of the Waterloo mathNEWS. As a programmer who has frequently been frustrated by the lack of flexibility of ...

Sure enough, in just six days, Atkinson had created a specialized version of Pascal, a high-level programming language made especially for the Apple II. According to Isaacson, “Jobs respected ...

Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days. Story by Dave Smith • 1w. Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer.