On 2021-02-19, Alan Gauld via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > On 19/02/2021 03:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> They chose Pascal as being more modern, and something taught in >> schools (yeah, like TurboPascal is going to be a good introduction >> to writing software for real-time ground control of satellites). > > Funnily enough it was. Or at least for real-time telecomms control. > We wrote all our real-time stuff on VAX and later PC using Pascal > from the mid 80s through to early 1990s when we switched to C++. > But TurboPascal was not much like Pascal, it had all the > theoretical bits by-passed or removed.
Back in the 80's we wrote real-time embedded software for cellular telephone radios in Pascal. We even wrote the OS kernel in Pascal. It worked great and was less error-prone than C. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list