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Is Pascal underrated?

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by tonteldoos • 11 years ago

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PaulHoule• 11 years ago

I remember turbo pascal circa 1988 and I liked it way better than C. I rewrote a chunk of the standard library so it would take advantage of 16 bit instructions on my 286.

kjs32• 11 years ago

I used Turbo Pascal on CP/M-80. It wasn't just a little bit better than everything else out there, it was a real revolution. For I think $99 you got a solid integrated editor/IDE and a very fast compiler for a real language (not a toy like Tiny-C or whatever) that produced executables you could share. And it ran great in about 48KB (not GB...not MB) on a processor running between 1-4MHz. Good times.

misiogames• 11 years ago

yes

kjs32• 11 years ago

Pascal? Maybe. Object Pascal, Modula-2/2+/3, Ada, Mesa/Cedar? Definitely.

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