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On 16/10/2020 00:41, Jerry wrote:

> There also used to be Carbon bindings to Ada, possibly made by the same person. (The words "Blady" and "Pascal" come to mind for this person.) They were on the macada.org web site which doesn't seem to do much these days, as well as being linked from AdaPower. Of course the Carbon API has been long-deprecated but I'm sure it is still used. (How does Microsoft keep Word et al working on Macs?)

Microsoft are, or were, part owners of Apple as they helped out Steve 
Jobs financially at one point. So, they likely have the source to Mac OS X.