Re: The joy of FORTRAN

In alt.folklore.computers Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

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_FPC
 
I don’t know how much has been added to FPC above the base language.

Free Pascal started as open source implementation of Borland Turbo
Pascal.  Turbo Pascal added esentailly all features of C like
casts, pointer arithmetic and bit operations.  And Turbo Pascal
programs massively used inline assembly (Free Pascal is intended
to be partable and I saw no example of inline assemby in Free
Pascal but I think that it is supported).

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