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Pascal not able to do anything serious - David Formosa


I have the following comment to make regarding the above statement.

I worked in User Support at Imperial College in London and
one of the areas I was involved with was the installation
and support of a modula 2 compiler on the cdc mainframes
then used to provide the central service.

The compiler was available in source form and was based
on one of the original compilers from eth in zurich
(wirths name scattered through the source) and extended
by a university in belgium.

the major part of this compiler was written in pascal.

this compiler came with an interpreter for the cdc
and with code generators for the following hardware
platforms

pdp11
z8000
m68xxx

amongst others.

The electrical engineering department used this compiler
to develop embedded systems for 68000 boards. this involved
dacs and adcs and arithmetic based on the data input.

i don't regard this as 'nothing serious'

ian chivers
computer centre, king's college london