Board:   [DeveloperNet] Other Languages and Platforms
Subject: Past programming Language
From:    Phill Terry
Date:    Tue Sep 29, 2009 00:57

NI>  Re: Past programming Language
NI>  By: Phill Terry to NIGHTFOX on Mon Sep 28 2009 20:28:00

NI> >  > TP was a good tool .... WildCat! was written using it ... v I'd imagine

NI>It seems that a lot of BBS software and doors were written in Pascal..  Idon
NI>know much about Pascal though - but it sounds like Pascal may have had some
NI>useful libraries.  I've read that one of the things that made it popular for
NI>BBS stuff was its ability to dynamically load modules at runtime, or somethin
NI>like that..


I've played with Pascal enough to know that I should stay outta there ;)
You're right, though .. lotsa BBS/doors .,... comm. software in general,
use it .... it has some pretty cool features that aid in it's speed of
execution.

NI> >  > "Turbo Prologue" ... THAT was strage stuff .. kinda esoteric.

NI>I've heard of Prolog, but I don't know much about that either..  From whatI'
NI>heard about it, it sounded like a language to satisfy a special niche.

Yeah ... it was pretty bizarre from what I remembr *which ain't much).

Phill

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