21 Sep
2015
21 Sep
'15
3:52 p.m.
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
PASCAL was first implemented in FORTRAN.
But then, much later, . . .
Microsoft/IBM PC Pascal was written by Bob Wallace.
I have no idea WHO, but Microsoft/IBM PC FORTRAN was written in Microsoft
Pascal. There was an odd little warning not to use any 6 letter variable
names ending in QQ. A simple integer sieve of Erastothanes benchmark ram
faster in MBASIC than the compiled output of Microsoft FORTRAN.