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Pascal was a lot like BASIC in that every version added their own (often incompatible) stuff because the official standard language was so limited. Certainly yo
by jhbadger 4y ago
Pascal was a lot like BASIC in that every version added their own (often incompatible) stuff because the official standard language was so limited. Certainly you couldn't drop down to assembly in standard Pascal -- that sounds like something Turbo Pascal added and may be present in modern versions because of the popularity of that.
- hnlmorg 4y agoIt’s less to do with limitations of the language and more to do with variations in compilers (each vendor wanting to add their own flair to sell their compiler) and a lack of standards. You saw the same with C and C++ before they were standardised.