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In this case, research after the intriguing hypothesis of Ewing and Donn shows that it's not what happened.

I had the opportunity to work with Donn at my first job out of school in 2007.

It became clear that Donn also wanted Macintosh Basic to be a modern, structured language that would leave Applesoft Basic as a memory.

Herb and I took up offices at Apple and met with Donn several times a week to review progress.

I pressed for Mac Basic to also include the graphics statements we were standardizing on the committee, and Donn ultimately agreed.

I donn't think that is actually the case.

The record indicates that the Arctic Ocean has been covered with ice since the time of the Wisconsin glacial maximum, suggesting that the essential condition of the Ewing and Donn hypothesis for the origin of ice ages, that the Arctic Ocean be ice-free up to 11,000 years ago, cannot be met.

> “We know that during the past million years, the world has swung back and forth between ice ages and weather like today’s,” Ewing and Donn told me.

Ewing and Donn write (quoting from Harpers): > “The answer, we believe, is chat [sic] until a million years ago, the North Pole was not in that landlocked Arctic Ocean at all, but in the middle of the open Pacific, where there was no land on which snow and ice could accumulate, and ocean currents dissipated the cold.

It is part of the Ewing-Donn paradox that the next Ice Age will be preceded by such a warming of climate.

And what a pleasure it was to work with Donn!

Against Donn's and Marianne's creation, it looked antique: no structured programming elements, line numbers essential for GO TOs, primitive graphics commands, limited data types:a throwback, in a word.