[Info-vax] RIP NIklaus Wirth

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 12:52:38 -0800, DeanW wrote:

> Better part of two decades in DEC Pascal, and the first code I wrote for
> hire was done in Borland Pascal as a teenager.

VAX Pascal v1 was a pain to use, but v2 was a completely different 
compiler, with all kinds of neat extensions (including being able to pass 
function/procedure arguments by keyword).

And Borland’s Turbo Pascal was a UCSD derivative, with its own interesting 
extensions.

So the critics were likely right about (standard) Pascal being of limited 
use, without some sort of extensions.