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, 01:52:07
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Scott Lurndal <
scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> writes:
rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:03:13 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
When I went to uni in the 70s, the computer science lecturer had a
hard-on for Pascal, the latest and greatest. Always slipped in snide
remarks about BASIC or COBOL in most classes.
Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2. I swear as soon as anybody figured
out how to do anything useful with one of his languages Wirth designed a
new, more obscure version.
https://www.modula2.org/tutor/chapter8.php
Chapter 8 - Input/Output
In preparation
That sums it up. I've heard Wirth's languages described as programs that
are designed to tell secrets to themselves.
Wirth: His name is pronounced "virth" if by reference, and "worth" if by value.
I found the original Pascal to be confining.
VAX-11 Pascal, on the other hand, was wonderful. Enough useful
extensions to make it a very viable systems programming language.
As Lynne will be happy to tell you, the original IBM TCP/IP implementation
was written in IBM Pascal for VM/CMS.
-- Pete