19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
8:33 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, John Foust wrote:
At 05:05 PM 2/18/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It was fast, easy to use, and inexpensive.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
I snark about Pascal all the time. I encountered
it in a professional
capacity in 1987. [...]
Utterly trivial in languages that trust the programmer to handle
unformatted I/O.
All true, but doesn't it make you wonder why Turbo Pascal
was such a popular development environment for the PC for so long?>
Was it the sheer will power and marketing of Borland, or was
it the volume of developers who didn't need intensive low-level I/O?