31 Aug
2017
31 Aug
'17
10:37 p.m.
I wrote a plotter driver for the CDC in Pascal. Brian’s comments were apt: drivers aren’t
quite the same as a filter, even a Knuthian-style program.
I thought the world would end up using some post-Pascal, strongly typed language. Maybe
Oberon or Modula would fix things. (I don’t think any of a decade’s worth of Pascal
programs I wrote ever had a buffer overflow vulnerability.)
I look to the likes of go and rust to get us back on track. C is a pretty good assembly
language.
On 31Aug 2017, at 3:47 PM, Toby Thain
<toby(a)telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Professor Knuth seemed to manage OK, writing TeX and METAFONT in Pascal
(using his literate programming toolset, but that did not extend the
language much).
I suppose Apple's Pascal and Object Pascal -- used for Lisa and
Macintosh applications and systems software -- comes under the "so
people fixed it" category?
--Toby