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Very neat code and somewhat legible for a non-Pascal speaker. Curiously, it doesn't credit authors in the headers as I've seen in sources from the same period.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
Very neat code and somewhat legible for a non-Pascal speaker.
Curiously, it doesn't credit authors in the headers as I've seen in sources from the same period.
I also wonder how much of the core OS code made it into Macintosh System 1.
Also, nice styling here: http://revontulet.org/2023/01/19/lisadesk.png http://revontulet.org/2023/01/19/lisadesk.png. They didn't have to do ASCII art in the comments but they did!
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoSome of it does (credit authors) some of it doesn't. Some has changelog entries, some single author (e.g. Bill Atkinson's stuff), some nothing.
- dhosek 4y agoPascal was designed to be a legible language. It eschews brevity for clarity, e.g., preferring BEGIN…END over {…} and tends to avoid footguns, although I remember writing a significant program in Pascal back in the 80s where I really wanted to be able to pass a function in to another function and was bummed that there was no way to do so (or at least not in Pascal/VS in 1987). Even though I’ve not written a line of Pascal since 1991 or maybe 1992, I still have no difficulty reading and understanding Pascal code when I find myself looking to see how, e.g., TeX manages some task.
- kps 4y ago> Also, nice styling here: http://revontulet.org/2023/01/19/lisadesk.png http://revontulet.org/2023/01/19/lisadesk.png. That site blocks my ISP.