On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 21:40:08 +0000 (UTC), Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net>
declaimed the following:
>I am not sure how we end up conversing about PASCAL on a Python forum. But it
>is worth considering how people educated in aspects of Computer Science often
>come from somewhat different background and how it flavors what they do now.
>
You'd prefer REBOL, perhaps?
REXX at least has some structure to it <G>
NB: Pascal has, like Ada, always been a <cap><lowercase> name -- not
like the origins of COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, et al.
>I paid no attention to where PASCAL was being used other than I did much of my
>grad school work in PASCAL in the early 80's including my thesis being a
>document that could be typeset or run from the same file ;-)
>
Very early? The common versions were probably UCSD (running on UCSD
P-System); or a port of the P-4 compiler (which had been published in book
form) -- maybe a "tinyPascal" (integer only I suspect). Radio Shack did
provide Alcor Pascal for the TRS-80.
Later, you might have encountered TurboPascal -- which bore little
resemblance to a Jensen&Wirth Pascal.
J&W was one-program<>one-file (no link libraries, no "include" files as
I recall); very limited math functions if one is trying for scientific
applications (sin, cos, arctan were the trig functions I recall), and that
very unfriendly I/O system (console I/O required special handling from file
I/O as Pascal does a one-element pre-read when an I/O channel is opened --
which occurs on program load for stdin, much before a program could output
a prompt to the user).
Even my first exposure to VAX/VMS Pascal, which did allow for separate
compilation and linking, required me to declare interfaces to the FORTRAN
run-time library to get advanced math functions (I believe later versions
incorporated the FORTRAN math natively).
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