[Coco] OS9 Pascal

Theodore (Alex) Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Thu Nov 9 21:18:17 EST 2017



On 11/09/2017 06:57 PM, Joel Rees wrote:

> Many who learned Pascal learned Turbo Pascal and were disappointed in the
> standard>
> Turbo did things just slightly wrong, of course. But it became the de-facto
> standard Pascal in the US, so I was de-motivated towards either.

I always found Turbo Pascal disturbing.  One of the first things that
really soured me on non-standard extensions to languages.

> Anyway, if Michael Brant can find a copy of the compiler, we might be able
> to help him get it to compile pure standard Pascal programs, anyway.

All the hours spent working on Pascal code in Edit. The memories.



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