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Turbo Pascal, one of the best Pascal dialects with fast compilation times, modules and everything you need for doing systems programming. And a great built-in
by danieldk 14y ago
Turbo Pascal, one of the best Pascal dialects with fast compilation times, modules and everything you need for doing systems programming.
And a great built-in debugger. And Borland Pascal 7 even had protected mode support. I still get nostalgic when I see screenshots of Turbo Pascal.
I think the software would be safer would one language of that family be the default systems language for mainstream operating systems.
Indeed, there were better languages in the Pascal family (e.g. Modula-2 and Oberon), but they gained much traction. I did write some OS/2 programs with the Canterbury Modula-2 compiler.
- pjmlp 14y agoHave you ever used Native Oberon or his successor AOS operating systems? A nice experience that it is possible to have desktop operating systems written in GC enabled system programming languages, contrary to what many people think. Sadly not well known outside the Zurique's Technical University (ETHZ) or the institutes that work with them. I liked in the experience back in the mid-nineties and I am a bit of Oberon collector.
- willvarfar 14y agoThere is precious little exposure of Oberon. What you need to do is make a decent 'unwrapping' video and then talk about how the object system worked e.g. widgets. That'd get some attention here.
- pjmlp 14y agoYeah, I am actually planning to do something like this, but so far real life keeps getting in the way. :)
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- danieldk 14y agoI tried it during my Modula-2/Oberon days, but it was a bit too weird for me :).