9 May
2024
9 May
'24
10:43 p.m.
On 5/9/24 15:10, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
The first versions of Pascal lacked any I/O specification.
About a decade ago, I retrieved an early version of Pascal (source)
written on the CDC 6000 from a batch of tapes from UIUC:
(*********************************************************
* *
* *
* COMPILER FOR PASCAL 6000 - 3.4 *
* ****************************** *
* *
* *
* RELEASE 2 MARCH 1976 *
* *
* *
* *
* CDC SCIENTIFIC CHAR SET VERSION *
* (00B AND 63B ARE TREATED IDENTICALLY) *
* *
* AUTHOR% URS AMMANN *
* INSTITUT FUER INFORMATIK *
* EIDG. TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE *
* CH-8006 ZUERICH *
* *
*********************************************************)
Apparently, the collection had a listing, but not machine-readable
source code. That turned up on one of my tapes, so I forwarded it on.
You can see the whole shebang at
http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/cdc-6000-pascal-compilers/
I've written code in Pascal, as well as Modula-2. Never liked
it--seemed to be a bit awkward for the low-level stuff that I was doing.
--Chuck
>
Turbo-Pascal was quite popular. At the annnouncement of it (West
> Coast Computer Faire), Phillipe Kahn (Borland) was so inundated with
> "yeah, but what about C?" questions, that by the end of the first
> day, "Turbo C is coming soon"
On Thu, 9 May 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
I learned on Turbo C. It was a fantastic little
IDE.
I have heard that Pascal was originally developed for TEACHING programming.
Turbo Pascal makes that easier.