Editing CodeWarrior (section)

===Origins===
In  October 1992, John McEnerney, formerly development manager of Symantec's Language Products Group, left the company to work on his own on a PowerPC product, initially thinking about a [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]] compiler. Rich Siegel, author of [[BBEdit]], heard that McEnerney had left Symantec and told Greg Galanos of [[Metrowerks]] in [[Montreal]]. Galanos phoned McEnerney and asked him to "describe your dream job". McEnerney said he wanted to write a [[Code generation (compiler)|code generator]] for the new [[PowerPC]] (PPC) chip that Apple had announced they would be using in the future.{{sfn|Mark|1996a}}

Metrowerks had already developed Pascal and [[Modula-II]] compilers, originally for the [[Atari ST]], but later ported to a number of contemporary machines including the Mac. They flew McEnerney to Montreal to meet with Galanos and his partner Jean Belanger. They felt that there was a huge opportunity for a new toolchain on the PPC, combining their compilers with a new code PPC code generator written by McEnerney. They felt could get to market more rapidly than [[Gen Digital|Symantec]], the leading supplier of development systems on the Mac. Symantec was nowhere near the release of their products for PPC, and Apple was using updated versions of their own [[Macintosh Programmers Workshop]] (MPW) for development on the PPC, a product that had been ignored for years. McEnerney was interested, but unimpressed with their compilers, and little came of this initial contact.{{sfn|Mark|1996a}}

Around the same time, Andreas Hommel was in university in Germany completing a MS in [[computer science]]. He developed an interest in writing [[computer game]]s in C, but found that existing compilers generated poor-quality code. Over a series of years he developed his own C compiler for the 68k along with a simple [[integrated development environment]] (IDE). When he completed university he was offered a job in [[Hamburg]] but decided to try to see if there was a market for his compiler. A few months later he received a call from Galanos. After several transatlantic phone calls, Galanos invited Hommel to come to Montreal and discuss working with them.{{sfn|Mark|1996b}}