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Was anyone building things like operating systems or drivers in pascal? AFAIK that was always the realm of c. Turbo pascal was the first language I was taught,
by flukus 10y ago
Was anyone building things like operating systems or drivers in pascal? AFAIK that was always the realm of c. Turbo pascal was the first language I was taught, I have a soft spot for it but I think it had largely faded away by then.
- steveklabnik 10y agohttp://wiki.osdev.org/Pascal#Past_uses_in_OS_development http://wiki.osdev.org/Pascal#Past_uses_in_OS_development I have vague memories of trying to write MacOS apps in CodeWarrior and needing to mark C functions as having a Pascal ABI...
- monocasa 10y agoApollo built a whole Unix-like in Pascal that ran on their workstations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS
- defined 10y agoI wrote some pretty low-level stuff in VAX PASCAL, which had extensions to let you do just about anything. It was a nice language.
- efalis 10y agoYeah, when I was working at Burroughs in 1980, they were doing printer drivers and a distributed OS prototype in their version of Pascal. Problem was, everyone needed to beef up Pascal in their own way to make it industrial level.