At 08:00 2018-02-20, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On 2018-02-19 07:15, Alan Bourke wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 11:49 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:02 AM, Laurie Alvey trukker41@gmail.com wrote:
I guess FORTRAN & PASCAL would qualify.
The only differentiation I might make is whether there are implementations still out in the world. Pascal and Fortran have more or less complete and free compilers available .
In the case of Pascal there's also Delphi and Oxygene in the commercial products world. Pascal is far from a zombie language.
Pascal was one of my first true programming language loves. Beautiful language from my recollection of 30 years ago.
Yech! I felt more along the lines of Brian Kernighan who wrote https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html in 1981. The language may well have changed considerably since then, but one of his concerns at the time was writing a piece of software that could be easily ported and so he wanted to use standard Pascal.
Personally, I hate the way Pascal handled sequential reads. Priming reads are nasty.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Gene Wirchenko