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  • Re: RIP NIklaus Wirth

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to DeanW on Fri Jan 5 22:04:46 2024
    On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 12:52:38 -0800, DeanW wrote:

    Better part of two decades in DEC Pascal, and the first code I wrote for
    hire was done in Borland Pascal as a teenager.

    VAX Pascal v1 was a pain to use, but v2 was a completely different
    compiler, with all kinds of neat extensions (including being able to pass function/procedure arguments by keyword).

    And Borland’s Turbo Pascal was a UCSD derivative, with its own interesting extensions.

    So the critics were likely right about (standard) Pascal being of limited
    use, without some sort of extensions.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Jan 5 17:27:24 2024
    On 1/5/2024 5:04 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    So the critics were likely right about (standard) Pascal being of limited use, without some sort of extensions.

    One could argue that standard Pascal was for having students learn
    good programming habits and Wirth's suggestion for real software
    development was Modula-2.

    Arne

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