From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 10:32:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2O1QZamBa_7V7=QVKHy4BHdqNQmj1iuSJta=MpyuBjudw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2005261411560.79423@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:22 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> > [...] Pascal tries to be the answer, but I think it suffered from the
> > fact that it makes Pascal a production quality language, you had a
> > extend it and everybody's extensions were different.
>
> Perhaps I'm the only one here, but when I was taught Pascal (possibly by
> Dr. Lions himself) it was emphasised to us that it was not a production
> language bur a *teaching* language; you designed your algorithm, debugged
> it with the Pascal compiler, then hand-translated it into your favourite
> language (and debugged it again :-/).
>
> Dave that was exactly my point. Pascal was designed as a teaching
language so Wirth did not put things into the language that made it helpful
as a production language. So everyone else tried and the language became
a mess. Everybody peed on it. Dennis' quote: “When I read commentary
about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks
that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.”
<https://www.inspiringquotes.us/quotes/eDQR_hqwtHAC9>
It's not that you could not turn Pascal into a production language, but
every attempt to try to do so was done in a different manner. And within
firms it was always different. Eight different 'Tek Pascal'
implementations -- all close, but different - he says shaking his head.
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2020-06-07 9:39 ` Ed Carp
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2020-05-22 11:09 ` arnold
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2020-05-22 19:01 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-22 19:35 ` Larry McVoy
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