Re: VAX/VMS Pascal, Modula-3, Oberon, what could have been....

I've heard Modula-3 (from DEC SRC and Olivetti Research Center) called "the Ada regular programmers would adopt". They never did, of course, because Olivetti decided research wasn't that important and DEC got bought and a lot of other reasons that are documented elsewhere. Not to get into a

Re: VAX/VMS Pascal, Modula-3, Oberon, what could have been....

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > I was VERY pleased to discover FPC (Free Pascal Compiler) which implements > the Borland and DEC extensions very well. > On the other hand, I *despise* that they've conflated pointers with arrays, like C does. In "real"

Re: VAX/VMS Pascal, Modula-3, Oberon, what could have been....

On 11/02/2016 06:38 PM, Mark Wickens wrote: I recently discovered the very excellent website http://pascal.hansotten.com devoted to all things Wirth. I did a lot of work in Pascal on VAX and Windows systems in the '80s or so, and have some legacy programs that were in use until recently. I

Re: VAX/VMS Pascal, Modula-3, Oberon, what could have been....

This is a photo of myself (and the extremely more capable Matt) 'in the programming zone': https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNaw7BXGu1qeLDrin_azJmz9Fie3rE6S2NgK3q0NDcqkLoaO3adZ-4lm5xlBjv6VA/photo/AF1QipM44fJM0dGKL3z5NQU6PlYX2Um8VfHLNDOSy_3T?key=cmxCQ0JDLW5zQkpLNkhFbldOaGNSaUtVejVRLTJB On

VAX/VMS Pascal, Modula-3, Oberon, what could have been....

I recently discovered the very excellent website http://pascal.hansotten.com devoted to all things Wirth. I sent a message to the author, as detailed below, but I would encourage anyone to visit the website - you will surely learn something? Greetings from Windermere in the Lake District,