Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Feb 2015

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From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com>
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Subject: Re: Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

At 05:05 PM 2/18/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
...
 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?

By '85, there were several C compilers for the PC and I even
remember using Gimpel C-terp, a C interpreter that made development
and debugging easier.

- John