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This is a nice article about the shortcomings of pascal. I don't know oberon so maybe it changed a bit. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on
by randomNumber7 6y ago
This is a nice article about the shortcomings of pascal. I don't know oberon so maybe it changed a bit.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pascal.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pasc...
- loup-vaillant 6y agoThanks for the link, I'll go take a look. I'm pretty sure Oberon addressed some of the pitfalls cited there, if only so Wirth could write an OS with it. Not every language is OS worthy, after all.
- int_19h 6y agoThis article talks about Wirth's Pascal as originally defined. But various language dialects evolved way beyond that, and some of them became effectively dominant. Here's what low-level programming in Pascal looked like on DOS: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/TSR/0022.PAS.html http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/TSR/0022.PAS.html