Comment by pjmlp
10 years ago
> Oberon was floating in the air for some years, but nothing happened. This was always a mystery to me.
Wirth was never good on capitalizing his work on the industry. Same thing happened to Modula-2 sadly.
On his ACM award article and a later article about lean software, he discusses how sadly he sees industry embracing complexity instead of quality.
http://www-oldurls.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/Turin...
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware....
> Pascal guys were mostly PC or Atari guys, and C were mostly those with access to *NIX and Amigas.
A reason why I never cared about C, so basic when compared with Turbo Pascal 6.0, and eventually got to move into C++.
Also most of my friends with Amigas cared only about Assembly.
Also most of my friends with Amigas cared only about Assembly.
Of course. I tried to be as brief as possible, not to bother people. Even C had a stigma of being slow back then. Assembly was the language for anything performant, but everybody was aware that in the following years computers will get fast enough (computers, not compilers hah) not to care.
Sure, sorry for misunderstanding you.
That is why I always smile when people talk about how modern languages are so slow and C is the king of speed, if only they used those old C compilers back then...
> Also most of my friends with Amigas cared only about Assembly.
The irony in that is that the Amiga had a lot of decent implementations of Wirths languages. Both Pascal (including the moderately comercially successful HiSoft Pascal), Modula-II and Oberon.
Those friend of mine were into demoscene, hence the Assembly.
HiSoft tools were great.