On 5/9/24 15:10, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >>> Turbo-Pascal was quite popular. At the annnouncement of it (West >>> Coast Computer Faire), Phillipe Kahn (Borland) was so inundated with >>> "yeah, but what about C?" questions, that by the end of the first >>> day, "Turbo C is coming soon" > > On Thu, 9 May 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: >> I learned on Turbo C. It was a fantastic little IDE. > > I have heard that Pascal was originally developed for TEACHING programming. > Turbo Pascal makes that easier.
The first versions of Pascal lacked any I/O specification. About a decade ago, I retrieved an early version of Pascal (source) written on the CDC 6000 from a batch of tapes from UIUC: (********************************************************* * * * * * COMPILER FOR PASCAL 6000 - 3.4 * * ****************************** * * * * * * RELEASE 2 MARCH 1976 * * * * * * * * CDC SCIENTIFIC CHAR SET VERSION * * (00B AND 63B ARE TREATED IDENTICALLY) * * * * AUTHOR% URS AMMANN * * INSTITUT FUER INFORMATIK * * EIDG. TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE * * CH-8006 ZUERICH * * * *********************************************************) Apparently, the collection had a listing, but not machine-readable source code. That turned up on one of my tapes, so I forwarded it on. You can see the whole shebang at http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/cdc-6000-pascal-compilers/ I've written code in Pascal, as well as Modula-2. Never liked it--seemed to be a bit awkward for the low-level stuff that I was doing. --Chuck
