Chives, Saturday, 16 May 12026 HE
2026-05-16 | 26E16 | 2026-136 | 2461176
2026-W20-6 | Q2 | Verano
2013-09-01 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
up the transmission tower, San José, California
and I’m right back to flip-flopping over Ada and Pascal as a choice for a hobby language – there’s certainly no issues with claiming Ada is the more powerful and better designed language – and the Murtagh paper put forward that Ada made a better teaching language than a programming language designed for teaching – it’s only issue was that, up until the late ’90s, microcomputers couldn’t handle the compiler, so there’s no backlog of “fun” retro programs to work from
on the flip side, Pascal was designed as a teaching language, which meant it was in the hands of every aspiring programmer from very early on – and, thanks to the advent of Turbo Pascal, it became THE hobby language (alongside BASIC) of microcomputers – thanks to this, there’s now a huge trove of retrocomputing books and programs to trawl through for tips, tricks, and ideas
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