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fantastic contribution .. I wish I had known about GPascal back then ! As a kid with my dads 8088 .. I tried GW-Basic but ugh.. then found a free Assembler A86
by jgord 2y ago
fantastic contribution .. I wish I had known about GPascal back then !
As a kid with my dads 8088 .. I tried GW-Basic but ugh.. then found a free Assembler A86 on a BBS and a book on writing TSRs.
Then the heavens opened and I got a copy of Turbo Pascal which to me was, and still is, the peak of elegant engineering.
I tortured myself with Herb Schilds books and moved to C/C++ .. but learned a lot.. still remember the buzz when I grokked the idea of how a recursive descent compiler worked.
Kudos for writing all this up.
- stevekemp 2y agoA86 was the assembler I used too, with a well-thumbed set Ralph Browns interrupt list printouts. It's kinda fun to go back to writing code in assembly for CP/M systems nowadays, even simpler than MS-DOS due to a smaller set of system APIs.