Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 25. Sep 2024, 06:31:05
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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.