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From: Markus Stumptner
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:31

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From article <1992Jul24.144708.3784@inmos.co.uk>, by bruce@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Bruce Stenning):
> Can you imagine writing something like UNIX in Pascal?  It would be an
> absolute nightmare.

Classic myopia.  Actually, CDC wrote the last generations of their
mainframe operating systems in a Pascal-based language (recorded
somewhere in the 1984? SIGPLAN notices) with favorable results.  (NOT
Standard Pascal, of course.)  A larger part of the Macintosh OS is
written in Pascal, as far as I know.  Also take a look at the
workstation operating systems developed by Wirth's group over the
years - fast, lightweight, fairly powerful, and usually with languages
quite similar to Pascal, certainly not beyond Turbo Pascal in
expressiveness, and all quite far removed from C.

No, I wouldn't recommend doing it to anyone who doesn't want to.  But
obviously it's more of a looking-over-the-fence problem than a real
one.
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Markus Stumptner                                mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
University of Technology Vienna                 vexpert!mst@relay.eu.net
Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria             ...mcsun!vexpert!mst

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