[TUHS] Looking back to 1981 - what pascal was popular on what unix?
Jon Steinhart
jon at fourwinds.com
Sun Jan 30 06:02:42 AEST 2022
Clem Cole writes:
>
> And the problem was 'standard' - lots of people messed with it and every
> Pascal was a little different. In 1981 at one of the HP/Tektronix
> [Hatfield/McCoy parties - Stienhart probably remembers], Mike Zuhl, TW Cook
> and I counted 14 different "Tek Pascal's" and over 25 "HP Basic's" -- each
> was a little different.
Oh yeah. Part of this was because Pascal wasn't really up to the job.
So many product groups added their own p-codes for things that they
needed.
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