Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

[geneb]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Eric Smith wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:13 PM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Eric Smith wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:40 AM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>>>> Borland never quit tweaking the language
>>>> Object Pascal hit with the 5.5 release of Turbo Pascal
>>> That was Apple tweaking the language.
>> I don't recall Apple ever having been involved with Borland.
>
> As far as I know, they weren't. But Apple defined Object Pascal, not
> Borland. Borland just used the language definition Apple threw over
> the wall. Borland tweaked the language in other ways, but Object
> Pascal was Apple tweaking it.

Ahh.  They got the ball started then.  It's a shame they dropped it.

g.

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