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  • Pascal - Now and Then

    From Amessyroom@DIGDIST/TL-QWK to all on Tue Jul 23 11:32:00 2024
    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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  • From Amessyroom@DIGDIST/TL-QWK to all on Tue Jul 23 12:02:00 2024
    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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  • From Nightfox@DIGDIST to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 23 10:27:00 2024
    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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  • From Ernie@DIGDIST/LOSTCAUS to Amessyroom on Wed Jul 24 00:40:00 2024
    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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  • From Ernie@DIGDIST/LOSTCAUS to Nightfox on Wed Jul 24 00:48:00 2024
    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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