1 Sep
2017
1 Sep
'17
2:19 a.m.
No, such a Pascal would've been more of an Ada if developed like C++; more of an
Oberon or Modula-2
if minimalist.
I (officially) learned programming with Turbo Pascal. However, I'd already read both
Comer's and
Tanenbaum's books on operating system design and implementation, and likewise Brinch
Hansen's
book on Solo and Concurrent Pascal.
It didn't take long to work out that you could put together larger projects even with
Turbo C than you
could with Turbo Pascal, and the Turbo Pascal efforts towards handling large projects were
a fudge.
I liked Oberon - I think Wirth came closer to the minimalism of C with Oberon.
Wesley Parish
Quoting Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu>:
"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor,
Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn
If Unix was
written in Pascal I would've happily continued using
Pascal!
Amusing in the context of Brian's piece, which essentially says if Unix
could have been written in Pascal, then Pascal wouldn't have been
Pascal.
doug\