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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 26 Sep 2024 01:32:26 GMT
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:03:49 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> VAX-11 Pascal, on the other hand, was wonderful. Enough useful
> extensions to make it a very viable systems programming language.

I bought the CP/M version of Turbo Pascal mostly on a whim. "50 bucks -- 
this I gotta see." iirc it had enough non-standard extensions to be useful 
and it was on blazing hell of a lot faster than the BDS C compiler I was 
using.