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From: antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch)
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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In alt.folklore.computers Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On 25 Sep 2024 04:38:54 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2.
>> 
>> It’s in the name: “modular”. Pascal had features like I/O and memory 
>> management as predefined functions/procedures; Modula-2 made them into 
>> library routines that could be implemented in Modula-2 itself.
>> 
>> Why? So that Modula-2 could be used to write an actual operating system 
>> (Medos, for the Lilith workstation), which you couldn’t do in Pascal 
>> alone.
>> 
> 
> Operating Systems written in FPC
> 
> https://wiki.freepascal.org/Operating_Systems_written_in_FPC
> 
> I don’t know how much has been added to FPC above the base language.

Free Pascal started as open source implementation of Borland Turbo
Pascal.  Turbo Pascal added esentailly all features of C like
casts, pointer arithmetic and bit operations.  And Turbo Pascal
programs massively used inline assembly (Free Pascal is intended
to be partable and I saw no example of inline assemby in Free
Pascal but I think that it is supported).

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                              Waldek Hebisch