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[dn]

On 15/01/24 21:13, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote:
> On 15/01/24 1:54 pm, dn wrote:
>> Soon after, Wirth simplified rather than expanded, and developed Pascal.
> 
> Before Pascal there was Algol-W, which Wirth invented as a rebellion
> against how complicated Algol 68 was becoming.
> 
>> When I first saw this I was stunned, then attracted to its simplicity, 
>> but then steered-away once realised that it needed 'more' to cope with 
>> 'the outside world'.
> 
> Pascal was intended as a teaching language, and as such it was lacking
> in practicality in a few spots. But it didn't need much tweaking to
> make it a very useful language. UCSD Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc.
> enjoyed a lot of popularity. A variant of UCSD was the main language
> for Macintosh application development for a number of years.


Ironically, I didn't come across Pascal as a teaching-language.

Borland were trying to turn Turbo Pascal into a practical development 
environment, beyond teaching (as with others of their 'Turbo' series). 
As I say, it didn't float my business-world boat.
- not before I won a case a wine from Philippe Kahn's own vineyard for 
solving some 'interview question' and exchanging jokes with him, in 
French, at some Trade Show in London. Two surprises: one, that it 
actually turned-up a few weeks later, and two, that I (suddenly) had so 
many friends!

Ah, the good, old days...


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Regards,
=dn