19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
6:43 p.m.
On 02/19/2015 06:33 PM, Mark Green wrote:
I started using Pascal on CDC 6000 series machines.
At that point in time
the other languages that were widely available on CDC hardware were Fortran
and assembler. Within a year or so we dropped assembler as our main systems
language and switched to Pascal. Pretty much everything we could do in
assembler we could do in Pascal in fewer lines of source code. Writing
efficient assembler on CDC machines was not particularly easy and the Pascal
compiler generated fairly good code, so we saw little performance
difference.
Scott Moore has a good site on the Zurich compilers:
http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/PascalP.html
I found a P4 copy on a NOS 1.3 tape that I was converting for someone
and contributed the source to his collection.
--Chuck