In this new series, my aim is to convey the diversity and beauty of programming languages to people who are perhaps less enthusiastic about them than me, before they all go extinct. For some reason, I thought this would be fun to do using a pot plant metaphor. I’m sure I’ll come to regret this decision, but let’s run with it for now.
I'd say Pascal is part of the Algol family; something of a late bloomer that was designed primarily for teaching purposes. I fondly recall having to write all my own I/O routines (procedures) for it when I chose to write my PhD code in it 😄
Yes, I guess so, but Algol is a bit before my time 😉 I was always struck by the fact that Pascal was quite dominant when I was a wee whipper snapper, but then just faded away very quickly. Back in the 90s, I recall that all the Apple programmer's documentation was based around the assumption you were using Pascal - which was quite frustrating to a C programmer like me!
I'd say Pascal is part of the Algol family; something of a late bloomer that was designed primarily for teaching purposes. I fondly recall having to write all my own I/O routines (procedures) for it when I chose to write my PhD code in it 😄
Yes, I guess so, but Algol is a bit before my time 😉 I was always struck by the fact that Pascal was quite dominant when I was a wee whipper snapper, but then just faded away very quickly. Back in the 90s, I recall that all the Apple programmer's documentation was based around the assumption you were using Pascal - which was quite frustrating to a C programmer like me!