Who are the Gurus responsible for the great Pilot development systems?
The free Pilot development systems have been created by the tireless and selfless efforts of several people in the community. I suspect most of them never made a dime on Pilot development tools and did it just for the thrill of the challange or to provide a service to the community. There are a lot of people that have made big contributions to Pilot development. I’m sure I’ll miss a few due to my ignorance, but the following people stand out: • Darrin Massena was the first to break Pilot programming out of Macintosh purgatory when he wrote Pila, the Pilot Assembler. He also hosts the Pilot programming news server and an excellent page that’s a must read for all Piloteers. • Wes Cherry wrote PilRC which is the resource editor used by nearly all Pilot development systems. He also addes some coolness to Pila • Wes Cherry, Andy Sackheim, Kresten Krab Thorup, Ian Goldberg, and D. Jeff Dionne and the US Robotics technical staff are responsible for the GCC development system. • Greg Hewgill w
