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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 03:18:54 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:


>    For the record, I just LOVE Pascal ... still do lots of apps small
>    and large in FPC/Lazarus. May proto in Python, but often the goal is
>    to re-do it in Pascal.
> 
>    SOME languages are a little TOO much 'ideology'.
> 
>    Wirth managed to balance the equation. Both ideology AND very
>    practical.
> 
>    I started using Pascal back with the pink-label multi-pass IBM
>    compilers. Never went back. 'C' is Just Great - but Pascal is far
>    more easy to *understand* and is just 'elegant'.

Pascal treated me well :)  It was used as a didactic language at 
University of Maine and the Sprague Electric plant at Sanford ME tended to 
hire engineers from there. For whatever its virtues process control or 
manipulating a robot arm with 5 degrees of freedom weren't among them. I 
was contracted to develop modules, dlls, or whatever the Pascal term was 
to bridge the gap.

 
>    STILL have a VM of DOS with the multi-pass Pascal compiler - and DO
>    stuff in it from time to time.

https://www.freepascal.org/


I did buy Borland TurboPascal for CP/M mostly because I was curious what 
$50 would get you. It was so much faster than the BDS C compiler I thought 
something went wrong with my 'hello world' attempt.