[TUHS] What would early alternatives to C have been?

[Clem Cole]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM Greg A. Woods <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:

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> Which reminds me, wasn't there was some mention of difficulties with
> Pascal et al w.r.t. separate compilation earlier in this thread....
> Wasn't that one of the features of Berkeley Pascal?

Yes - had extensions for that so: compiling to *.o and using external
libraries was possible.
man pc will describe the -c switch   pc was the hooks into the pcc  system
for the vax, but I'm not sure if it was backported the PDP-11.   It was
moved to the 68k by a couple different teams, including Sun for SunOS.
Maybe Larry or Rob G can answer if they ever moved it to SPARC.   By that
time, they had there own compiler suite and may have started to abandon
anything based on pcc.

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