NeXTSTEPs

NeXTSTEPs is a programming language developed by Apple Inc. in the early 1980s. It was created as an educational tool to teach programming concepts to students. NeXTSTEPs is an acronym for "NeXT Simple Toolkit for Exploring Programming." The language was designed to be simple and easy to understand, making it an ideal choice for beginners.

NeXTSTEPs was first introduced as part of the NeXTSTEP operating system, which was developed by NeXT Inc., a company founded by Steve Jobs after he was ousted from Apple. NeXTSTEP was a Unix-based operating system that was designed to be user-friendly and powerful. It included a variety of development tools and libraries, making it a popular choice for software developers.

The language itself is a procedural language with a syntax similar to C. It supports basic data types such as integers, floats, and strings, as well as control structures like loops and conditionals. NeXTSTEPs also includes a built-in graphics library, which allows developers to create simple graphical applications.

Despite its educational origins, NeXTSTEPs was also used in commercial applications. It was the primary language for developing software on the NeXTSTEP operating system, and it was used to create a variety of applications, including word processors, spreadsheets, and databases.

In the late 1990s, Apple acquired NeXT Inc. and integrated NeXTSTEP into its own operating system, Mac OS X. NeXTSTEPs was eventually replaced by Objective-C, another programming language developed by NeXT Inc. Objective-C is an object-oriented language that is a superset of C, and it is still widely used in macOS and iOS development today.