On Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:59:03 -0800 (PST), Grant Edwards wrote:
> Yonks ago (early 80s), I used Pascal to write an RTOS kernel and call > processing firmware for a cell-site radio running a 16-bit > microprocessor (Z8000). It worked great. However, that Pascal compiler > had a few extensions designed specifically to support embedded systems > use on bare metal -- things like specific length signed/unsigned > interger types (with binary operations), pointers to raw memory and > configurable bounds-checking. Around that time I had a source of income from writing extensions. My client tended to hire engineers fro the University of Maine where Pascal was the didactic language. Wirth's Pascal was characterized as a language very good at telling secrets to itself. Controlling robotic arms, gathering information from process controllers, and so forth wasn't on the menu. As for Turbo Pascal, I had been using the BDS C subset on a CP/M system. I installed TP, did the requisite hello world, and I thought something was broken. I had to convince myself the compiler had spit out an executable that fast and hadn't crashed. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
