Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : peter_flass (at) *nospam* yahoo.com (Peter Flass)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Sep 2024, 01:52:01
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On 25 Sep 2024 04:38:54 GMT, rbowman wrote:
Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2.
It’s in the name: “modular”. Pascal had features like I/O and memory
management as predefined functions/procedures; Modula-2 made them into
library routines that could be implemented in Modula-2 itself.
Why? So that Modula-2 could be used to write an actual operating system
(Medos, for the Lilith workstation), which you couldn’t do in Pascal
alone.
Operating Systems written in FPC
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Operating_Systems_written_in_FPCI don’t know how much has been added to FPC above the base language.
-- Pete
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