6 Nov
2006
6 Nov
'06
12:38 p.m.
On 11/7/06, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Chris M wrote:
I had the "enjoyable experience" to be the first seasoned programmer
to join a small company that was doing work on the PDP-11 and the
PC-AT. Most of _my_ work was in PDP-11 and 80286 assembler, but the
main guy was in his first programming job of his career and did
everything in Pascal. :-P
The company was mapping out a switch to C for a variety of good
reasons, but unfortunately, due to external causes (not the choice of
Pascal), they went out of business before we started the transition.
At that company, I learned several times over why Pascal is not my
favorite language.
-ethan
what were these routines writtenw in originally?
(C
presumably I suppose, though one could only wonder why
they werent written in assembly TBW)
MOST of the Lisa software seems to have been written in Pascal.
Part of Job's "we want the next (sic) generation, NOT a repeat of what we
already have!" philosophy that caused him to hire some CS graduates with
NO experience in order to get a fresh approach. Some of them didn't even
know that current Pascal compilers were designed for TEACHING programming,
and did not produce output suitable for real world.