28 Sep
2014
28 Sep
'14
6:35 a.m.
Wasn't Apollo Computer's Domain OS written in
Pascal?
I feel reasonably sure it was not.
It may, however, have been written in a Pascal-plus-extensions
language.
This may sound like quibbling, but I don't think so. One of Pascal's
major defects for purposes like that[%] was its lack of support for
things like what C would call casting, or the very restricted I/O
available.
[%] For Pascal's design purpose, these are advantages, not defects.
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