[cctalk] Re: RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jan 4, 2024, at 11:08 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Pascal did not have strings originally, but it is a common "enhancement".  I 
> recall 40 years ago setting out to write a program to create a data file 
> using the S/370 ANSI Pascal compiler and it did not have strings.

Sounds like ALGOL 60, which suffered from similar problems.  (Also no 
standardized I/O.)  That was one issue ALGOL 68 corrected.

        paul