Board:   [DeveloperNet] Pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler of ch
From:    Vk3jed
Date:    Thu Jun 08, 2017 10:29

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-=> Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=-
 >
 De> Very fun. I love the syntax. Old languages are fun. I was never around
 De> in those times (born in 1999) but hell do I love them. My grand mother
 De> was a systems analyst and did Fortran, COBOL, Pascal and probably more
 De> back in those days.

I did BASIC, Pascal and FORTRAN in the 80s-90s.  Never had to deal with COBOL,
because my studies were in engineering.  I particularly enjoyed Pascal and
FORTRAN, Pascal, particularly Turbo Pascal, had a lot of great features.
FORTRAN was awesome for engineering type problems, with built in support for
complex numbers (used all the time in communication and power systems) - no
need for my normal complex number types and procedures, which I kept up my
sleeve for programs.  From memory, the complex type was a record with 2 fields
of type real - "real" and "imaginary".


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