18 Feb
2015
18 Feb
'15
2:48 p.m.
On 18 February 2015 at 22:41, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Pascal is somewhat under-rated (not to mention a litle ahead of its time,
as it turns out). Maybe this is because, like Lisp, those who snark about
it are too young to have used it :-)
Apart from anything else, it was the best-supported application and
systems programming language for Macintosh until the mid-1990s.
--Toby
Turbo Pascal was great. I spent many hundreds and probably thousands of
hours
coding with it.
I wouldn't chose to use it now, but back in the day it was the best
development system for CP/M and MS-DOS.
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