Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : esc
From : tenser
Date : Sat Jan 06 2024 08:58 am

On 04 Jan 2024 at 08:50p, esc pondered and said...
 
 es> I'd still like to go learn Pascal simply because of how prominent it was
 es> in all things BBSing, and the amount of Pascal sources related to BBSes
 es> are out there floating around. I wonder how long it'd take.

As others have mentioned, it's not too hard to pick up
Pascal, by design.  It was meant to be a teaching
language, so it's single-pass, pretty simple.  Most of
the dialects that were actually useful for things like
BBS software had extensions with things like strings,
that weren't really in the original language.

Interestingly, much of the early Apple systems software
on the Lisa and the Mac was written in Pascal.  Wirth
himself was brought in to extend the language to make it
suitable as a systems programming language.

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