[TUHS] Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language - Unearthed!
William Cheswick
ches at cheswick.com
Fri Sep 1 06:37:17 AEST 2017
I wrote a plotter driver for the CDC in Pascal. Brian’s comments were apt: drivers aren’t quite the same as a filter, even a Knuthian-style program.
I thought the world would end up using some post-Pascal, strongly typed language. Maybe Oberon or Modula would fix things. (I don’t think any of a decade’s worth of Pascal programs I wrote ever had a buffer overflow vulnerability.)
I look to the likes of go and rust to get us back on track. C is a pretty good assembly language.
> On 31Aug 2017, at 3:47 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
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>
> Professor Knuth seemed to manage OK, writing TeX and METAFONT in Pascal
> (using his literate programming toolset, but that did not extend the
> language much).
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> I suppose Apple's Pascal and Object Pascal -- used for Lisa and
> Macintosh applications and systems software -- comes under the "so
> people fixed it" category?
>
> --Toby
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