Board:   [DeveloperNet] Pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler of ch
From:    Deavmi
Date:    Fri Jun 09, 2017 22:33

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On 08/06/2017 01:29, Vk3jed wrote:
> -=> Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=-
>   >
>   De> Very fun. I love the syntax. Oldlanguages 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 2fields
> of type real - "real" and "imaginary".
>
>
> .... 12 Hours Of Work!! What Do You Mean Disk Error??
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I love how the type is a record. Just makes me feel happy to see data
structures. Probably just a programmer thing. :) You feel me right XD?
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