29 Apr
2016
29 Apr
'16
7:12 p.m.
On 04/29/2016 11:59 AM, Diane Bruce wrote:
Pascal and the Bell Northern Research, BNR (prior to
Nortel amalgamation) derivative were pretty awful.
Fortunately I never had to use the BNR version. They both
suffered from not having separate compilation units, at
least until near the end of BNR.
DEC Pascal and Borland's Turbo Pascal had
separate
compilation that worked pretty well. The one place I see
Pascal being a bit out of the league of other systems was
standard text and numeric I/O being substantially slower
than the I/O library routines for some other languages. Not
a problem if just reading or writing a page of text, but if
handling hundreds of K you definitely notice. Binary I/O
seemed to be OK.
Jon