New Python implementation

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-02-19, Alan Gauld via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> On 19/02/2021 03:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> They chose Pascal as being more modern, and something taught in
>> schools (yeah, like TurboPascal is going to be a good introduction
>> to writing software for real-time ground control of satellites).
>
> Funnily enough it was. Or at least for real-time telecomms control.
> We wrote all our real-time stuff on VAX and later PC using Pascal
> from the mid 80s through to early 1990s when we switched to C++.
> But TurboPascal was not much like Pascal, it had all the
> theoretical bits by-passed or removed.

Back in the 80's we wrote real-time embedded software for cellular
telephone radios in Pascal.  We even wrote the OS kernel in Pascal. It
worked great and was less error-prone than C.

--
Grant