Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

[Chuck Guzis]

On 02/19/2015 06:33 PM, Mark Green wrote:
> I started using Pascal on CDC 6000 series machines.  At that point in time
> the other languages that were widely available on CDC hardware were Fortran
> and assembler.  Within a year or so we dropped assembler as our main systems
> language and switched to Pascal.  Pretty much everything we could do in
> assembler we could do in Pascal in fewer lines of source code.  Writing
> efficient assembler on CDC machines was not particularly easy and the Pascal
> compiler generated fairly good code, so we saw little performance
> difference.

Scott Moore has a good site on the Zurich compilers:

http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/PascalP.html

I found a P4 copy on a NOS 1.3 tape that I was converting for someone 
and contributed the source to his collection.

--Chuck