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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 21:54:27 -0500
"WokieSux282@ud0s4.net" <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

> As for "bondage" ... not sure where you heard that. Pascal - esp the
> later Borland-derived versions - are a great all-purpose environment
> and you can actually READ yer code a year later.

Turbo Pascal didn't come 'round until 1983, though - a whopping 13
years into the language's history. And some of Wirth's staggering mis-
features earned the B&D label all by themselves ("solving" bounds-
checking issues by making array size part of the type specification is
something only a truly demented brain could ever conceive of.)

Of course, there were other extended versions of the language predating
TP - but, as Brian Kernighan famously observed, they mostly just made
it look more like whatever language the implementors *really* wanted.