22 Oct
2002
22 Oct
'02
1:33 p.m.
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
I'm looking for a good reference book on Pascal.
I'm looking for something in the 1982 to 1985 time range.
While NOT a reference, a "fun" book from that time period (1982) was
Elementary Pascal, by Henry Ledgard and Andrew Singer
The Pascal, I have, is said to be MS-Pascal. I
didn't know that
they did a Pascal but it may have been someone elses
that they OEM'd.
Microsoft Pascal for the PC was written at Microsoft by Bob Wallace (who
died last month). Later, they wrote their FORTRAN, and some other of their
languages in it. Bob told me that to get acceptable performance, to NEVER
use their runtime library.
All of that was well before they had a C compiler (the first one of which
that they had, they licensed from Lattice)
Of course, it isn't on a x86 machine so there may
be
differences.
?
what version are you talking about?
I am mostly interested in the kind of things
one would normally find in the object library that one
would use with this compiler. They mention that it is
a shared library with MS-FORTRAN. Information on FORTRAN
libraries might also be useful.
Thanks
Dwight
The Microsoft/IBM FORTRAN was adequate for teaching FORTRAN 77. But the
performance was AMAZING! It could actually take longer to run a benchmark
like sieve of Erastothanes with compiled FORTRAN than with interpreted
BASIC.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com