Section 01 of 05
Pascal
The language Niklaus Wirth designed for teaching that turned out to be a fast one — from ETH Zürich in 1970 to the Borland compiler that ran on a floppy.
A reference on Object Pascal, the Delphi line and the libraries built on it.
Section 01 of 05
The language Niklaus Wirth designed for teaching that turned out to be a fast one — from ETH Zürich in 1970 to the Borland compiler that ran on a floppy.
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The Language Niklaus Wirth Designed at ETH ZürichWirth's 1970 report ran to a few dozen pages; the language it defined outlived every machine it was first compiled for.Pascal
Thirty-Five Dollars on a Single FloppyEditor, compiler and linker on a single disc — the entire product, at a price that undercut the market it entered.Pascal
Why the Compiler Read the File Once and StoppedOne pass over the source and no intermediate file a user ever saw. The speed was the product.Pascal
When Borland Added the Word 'Objects'The 1989 release added object types to a language that had already shipped for six years without them.Pascal
Modula-2, and the Language Wirth Built InsteadWirth kept designing languages after Pascal. The market kept buying Pascal.Pascal