Bryan Stearns

Bryan Stearns was the creator of TeachText for Macintosh at Apple Computer.

Background
Stearns joined Apple in 1981 as employee #2536 and initially worked with the Apple II team. He was 18 years old when he was recruited to work on MacBasic with Donn Denman in spring 1982. Stearns left Apple six months later to join colleague Chuck Mauro at a startup, but returned in January 1985. In November of that year, CEO John Sculley gave in to Microsoft's demand to shelve MacBasic and it was never released. Stearns then wrote TeachText, a simple text editor for the Mac, with later versions co-developed with Francis Stanbach.