5 Jan
2024
5 Jan
'24
4:08 a.m.
Pascal did not have strings originally, but it is a common
"enhancement". I recall 40 years ago setting out to write a program to
create a data file using the S/370 ANSI Pascal compiler and it did not
have strings.
Paul.
On 2024-01-04 8:51 p.m., Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
Pascal has strings.
Sellam
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM Warner Losh via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> My first two pascal programs of any size were an Alarm Clock for my DEC
> Rainbow and a PDP-11 simulator, also for my DEC Rainbow (I did a science
> fair project comparing stack machines to traditional ones, but invented my
> own stack machine and was too young to know the right way to
> compare/contrast the two different machines, so I scraped by with a better
> than average rating... mostly because nobody knew how to evaluate it, but
> that was to my advantage thinking back on it...). Ah, fond memories of
> Turbo Pascal.
>
> Lack of strings, and lack of a good way to do portable I/O doomed the
> language.
>
> Warner
>