Editing Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (section)

{{Short description|Software development package for the Classic Mac OS}}
{{Refimprove|date=October 2008}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
| logo = MPW Shell.png
| screenshot =MPW Shell script.png
| caption = An executable MPW Shell script
| developer = [[Apple Computer]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1986|09|24}}
| latest_release_version = 3.6d7
| latest_release_date = 
| latest_preview_version = 
| latest_preview_date = 
| operating_system = [[Classic Mac OS]]
| platform = 
| genre = [[Software development tool]]
| license = closed-source freeware 
| website = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514011858/http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/ |date=May 14, 2011 |title=Official MPW website }}
}}
'''Macintosh Programmer's Workshop''' ('''MPW''') is a [[software]] development environment for the [[Classic Mac OS]] [[operating system]], written by [[Apple Computer]]. For [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] developers, it was one of the primary tools for building applications for [[System 7|System 7.x]] and Mac OS 8.x and 9.x. Initially MPW was available for purchase as part of Apple's professional developers program, but Apple made it a free download after it was superseded by [[CodeWarrior]]. On [[Mac OS X]] it was replaced by the [[Project Builder]] [[Integrated development environment|IDE]], which eventually became [[Xcode]].