On 15/01/24 21:13, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote:
On 15/01/24 1:54 pm, dn wrote:
Soon after, Wirth simplified rather than expanded, and developed Pascal.
Before Pascal there was Algol-W, which Wirth invented as a rebellion
against how complicated Algol 68 was becoming.
When I first saw this I was stunned, then attracted to its simplicity,
but then steered-away once realised that it needed 'more' to cope with
'the outside world'.
Pascal was intended as a teaching language, and as such it was lacking
in practicality in a few spots. But it didn't need much tweaking to
make it a very useful language. UCSD Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc.
enjoyed a lot of popularity. A variant of UCSD was the main language
for Macintosh application development for a number of years.
Ironically, I didn't come across Pascal as a teaching-language.
Borland were trying to turn Turbo Pascal into a practical development
environment, beyond teaching (as with others of their 'Turbo' series).
As I say, it didn't float my business-world boat.
- not before I won a case a wine from Philippe Kahn's own vineyard for
solving some 'interview question' and exchanging jokes with him, in
French, at some Trade Show in London. Two surprises: one, that it
actually turned-up a few weeks later, and two, that I (suddenly) had so
many friends!
Ah, the good, old days...
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=dn
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