On 5/30/22 14:59, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi all,
In 1984 I started my programming career with Whitesmith Pascal,
Sorry for the off-topic post, folks, but this just opened a wound from
my distant past... :(
I was a couple of years ahead of you, Steve, but at least in 1982 on
the PDP-11, Whitesmith Pascal was a truly *awful* thing - a
translation engine, not a compiler. It was a front end to Whitesmith
C, which in turn translated to Macro-11 and then compiled and linked
that (we watched these steps via RMD). The code produced was horribly
inefficient (we looked at the Macro-11 listings), and using RSX-11M
rather than M+, with no library space, code space was at a premium.
We quickly switched to Oregon Pascal (which DEC later bought as the
foundation of RSX Pascal) and it was a *far* superior compiler. Apart
from the debugger, that is, which took up so much space that you could
just about debug 'Hello, world' and that was it.
Hopefully Whitesmiths improved in the couple of years before you
started with it, or there was a better implementation if you used it
on a machine other than a PDP-11.
Brian.
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