Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 17:50:07 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

(I didn't know that DEC supported a Pascal dialect.)

It was a pretty remarkable one (at least with version 2 onwards of the
compiler; the earlier version 1 was a pretty boring vanilla Pascal). It
had various extensions for things like controlling the layout of fields
within a record (“struct” to those who only know C), specifying global/
external symbols independently of program-internal names for things, even
controlling procedure-calling and argument-passing conventions.

In short, it was ideally suited to writing systems-oriented software on
VMS.

Today’s GCC has a similarly rich repertoire of attribute controls, but I
don’t know of anything in-between the two that did.