I learned pascal while attending North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC , USA.

I used Turbo/Borland pascal on personal machines but the university used SAGE p-systems I think.

Here is an interesting discussion of pascal history. Did not know it was used in development of Apollo operating system Aegis.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/96770/what-features-con tributed-to-the-evolution-of-pascal


I see reading some posts, that there is now a free pascal.

https://www.freepascal.org

I'll have to check it out.
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Couldn't find it initially, but SAGE systems were used at NCSU to teach pascal.

I found the following site that talks about the SAGE II/IV.

https://thebattles.net/sage/

Didn't know it could run other operating systems.
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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Amessyroom to all on Tue Jul 23 2024 11:32 am

I learned pascal while attending North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC , USA.

Pascal is one programming language I've never used, and never learned.. It migh tbe interesting, though I haven't seen any recent projects using it.

Nightfox

Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Amessyroom to all on Tue Jul 23 2024 11:32 am

I learned pascal while attending North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC , USA.

My college required you to get a passing grade in Pascal before you were allowed to declare your major in Information Compter Systems. We programmed on a Burroughs mainframe, the teacher was a journalism professor.

Was an interesting time... ;)

Here is an interesting discussion of pascal history. Did not know it was used in development of Apollo operating system Aegis.

No, I did not, that is cool!
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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Nightfox to Amessyroom on Tue Jul 23 2024 10:27 am

Pascal is one programming language I've never used, and never learned.. It migh tbe interesting, though I haven't seen any recent projects using it.

Modula-2, Modula-3 and Oberon are Pascal on steriods ;)

It's very strictly typedef'd and kinda forces you to break your code into sections.

It's really good for teaching beginning programming concepts.


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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Ernie to Nightfox on Wed Jul 24 2024 12:48 am

Pascal is one programming language I've never used, and never learned.. It
migh tbe interesting, though I haven't seen any recent projects using it.

Modula-2, Modula-3 and Oberon are Pascal on steriods ;)

It's very strictly typedef'd and kinda forces you to break your code into sections.

It's really good for teaching beginning programming concepts.

I took a programming class in high school and was hoping it would be C/C++ or Pascal, but it was BASIC.. They were using Microsoft QBasic on MS-DOS with textbooks from the late 70s.

Nightfox

Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Nightfox to Ernie on Thu Jul 25 2024 09:52 am

It's really good for teaching beginning programming concepts.

I took a programming class in high school and was hoping it would be C/C++ or Pascal, but it was BASIC.. They were using Microsoft QBasic on MS-DOS with textbooks from the late 70s.

Yuck! ;)

At least it wasn't RPG II...
-- REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG_II
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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Ernie to Nightfox on Fri Jul 26 2024 15:59:44

At least it wasn't RPG II...
-- REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG_II

I liked RPG/RPG II. Than again, I liked COBOL. I always preferred the business side of computing.

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I liked RPG/RPG II. Than again, I liked COBOL. I always preferred the business side of computing.

COBOL put food on my table, and a roof over my head, for many, many years.

If it wasn't for COBOL, I might still be living with my parents! :O :D


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Re: Pascal - Now and Then
By: Mortar to Ernie on Sat Aug 17 2024 09:00 pm

I liked RPG/RPG II. Than again, I liked COBOL. I always preferred the business side of computing.

I liked both RPG II and COBOL.

RPG though felt a little to structured. It felt like you were filling out forms and then transposing to the computer. I'm guessing it had to do with it being a legacy card punch type language. I remember when I was learning RPG II, RPG III was just coming out and it was going to be more freeform.

COBOL was an interesting language to learn. I should have focused more on it and gotten a coding job instead of security. So many mainframe cobol programmers needed now. :)
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