12 May
2005
12 May
'05
10:13 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2005, John Foust wrote:
Pascal was punch card user input , C at least used TTY's :)
At 10:26 AM 5/12/2005, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
My comment was directed specifically at the UCSD Pascal system, and
furthermore directly at the Apple version. Pascal as a language is not
bad, and is probably the best language for doing what it was invented for,
which is teaching high level programming. And of course, tons of useful
production software has been developed in Pascal.
Let's face it: the UCSD Pascal system just
sucks.
Of course Pascal has its flaws, and they became more obvious as
people tried to use this designed-for-education language as a
application production language. In its best years, it was
a very useful packaging of an integrated editor, file system
and interactive compilation and almost-debugging.