Subj : Re: SklaffKOM
To   : Joacim Melin
From : tenser
Date : Thu May 21 2020 04:30:40

On 20 May 2020 at 03:29p, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
 
 JM> Thanks again.  I had to check again what OS they where using back in the
 JM> day and it was actually Interactive Unix back then. 

Oh, as in System V? That makes a lot of sense.

 JM> And you are absolutely right about the Pascal part - most if not all of
 JM> them came from a background in Pascal with several of them having
 JM> written older BBS systems in Pascal for CP/m and later MS-DOS. 

Yeah; you can tell in how they handle conditionals: a
lot of that code becomes deeply nested.  Most experienced
C programmers make more aggressive use of early returns,
breaks and `continue` in loops to approximate guard clauses.

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