[HN Gopher] Domain Pascal Language Reference (1987) [pdf]
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       Domain Pascal Language Reference (1987) [pdf]
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-09-30 17:47 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | kazinator wrote:
       | Apollo Domain/OS was a distributed environment that was the birth
       | place of some of the technologies underlying DCE. POSIX threads
       | and Microsoft COM directly trace their roots to this. Apollo was
       | a big player in the development of DCE (Distributed Computing
       | Environment) bringing in important pieces.
        
       | mhd wrote:
       | Any interesting extensions? You tend to find a lot of those in
       | Pascal implementations of that age to fix the shortcomings of the
       | language.
        
       | mikewarot wrote:
       | Many of the extensions found their way into Turbo Pascal, albeit
       | slightly shifted.
       | 
       | The DISCARD procedure is an interesting twist
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       | The UNIV keyword to suppress parameter type checking was replaced
       | with the ability to use untyped parameters.
       | 
       | VOLATILE declarations were clearly leading edge.
        
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