I learned pascal while attending North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC , USA.

I used Turbo/Borland pascal on personal machines but the university used SAGE p-systems I think.

Here is an interesting discussion of pascal history. Did not know it was used in development of Apollo operating system Aegis.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/96770/what-features-con tributed-to-the-evolution-of-pascal


I see reading some posts, that there is now a free pascal.

https://www.freepascal.org

I'll have to check it out.
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Couldn't find it initially, but SAGE systems were used at NCSU to teach pascal.

I found the following site that talks about the SAGE II/IV.

https://thebattles.net/sage/

Didn't know it could run other operating systems.
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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Amessyroom to all on Tue Jul 23 2024 11:32 am

I learned pascal while attending North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC , USA.

Pascal is one programming language I've never used, and never learned.. It migh tbe interesting, though I haven't seen any recent projects using it.

Nightfox

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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Amessyroom to all on Tue Jul 23 2024 11:32 am

I learned pascal while attending North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC , USA.

My college required you to get a passing grade in Pascal before you were allowed to declare your major in Information Compter Systems. We programmed on a Burroughs mainframe, the teacher was a journalism professor.

Was an interesting time... ;)

Here is an interesting discussion of pascal history. Did not know it was used in development of Apollo operating system Aegis.

No, I did not, that is cool!
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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Nightfox to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 23 2024 10:27 am

Pascal is one programming language I've never used, and never learned.. It migh tbe interesting, though I haven't seen any recent projects using it.

Modula-2, Modula-3 and Oberon are Pascal on steriods ;)

It's very strictly typedef'd and kinda forces you to break your code into sections.

It's really good for teaching beginning programming concepts.


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