On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 15:23 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > retard wrote: > > I can assure you that most commercial / hobbyist users of Pascal haven't > > used the original Pascal since Moses was born. > > I tried to use Pascal around 1979-1980. It's probably the most unusable > language > ever invented. Every commercial implementation of it had to have a boatload > of > extensions to make it work. > > The problem was, of course, every vendor implemented a different boatload.
Pascal was never really intended as a production language, it was intended for teaching programming and the abstract concepts behind programming. I suggest that in the period 1972-82 it achieved its goals admirably. From 1984 onwards it was clearly becoming insufficient for the task and things moved on. Most of the commercial Pascal varieties tried to be variants on Modula-2 but labelled themselves Pascal, and here lie the real problems and the hassles that led to Pascal ending up with a bad name -- one it should not be landed with in perpituity. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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