18 Feb
2015
18 Feb
'15
2:41 p.m.
On 18/02/15 1:16 AM, emu at e-bbes.com wrote:
Zitat von Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com>:
Pascal is somewhat under-rated (not to mention a litle ahead of its
time, as it turns out). Maybe this is because, like Lisp, those who
snark about it are too young to have used it :-)
Apart from anything else, it was the best-supported application and
systems programming language for Macintosh until the mid-1990s.
--Toby
Without getting into the merits of Pascal as a
programming language,
Turbo Pascal was at that time the best programming environment I'd
used, and (with apologies to C.A.R. Hoare) an improvement not only
over its predecessors but also over many of its successors. The
Finally somebody who liked Pascal ;-)
I enojoyed playing with Pascal/Modula etc.
However, paid jobs were FORTRAN & assembler back then