Sujet : Re: New VSI blog post
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 04. Aug 2024, 23:14:34
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 17:47:47 -0400, John Reagan wrote:
On 8/1/2024 6:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:11:22 -0400, John Reagan wrote:
I started with Digital in August 1983 to work on Pascal.
Was that Pascal V2 (the good one) or V1 (the crap one)? ;)
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V2.
Ah!
For those who didn’t know, VAX Pascal V1 was a strict standards-
conforming, boring compiler.
V2 onwards was completely different, adding a whole bunch of extensions to
make it more useful for programming under VMS. This included attributes
and passing arguments by keyword.
Oh yes, and the undocumented IADDRESS function.