Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-opus.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!gcc-opus!brad From: brad@gcc-opus.ARPA (Brad Parker) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Multilevel standards Message-ID: <177@gcc-opus.ARPA> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 16:55:52 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.177 Posted: Sun Jan 6 16:55:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:02:18 EST References: <4859@utzoo.UUCP> <11@mit-athena.ARPA> Reply-To: brad@gcc-opus.UUCP (Brad Parker) Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman) Lines: 27 Summary: In article <11@mit-athena.ARPA> jc@mit-athena.ARPA (John Chambers) writes: > >Hey, c/mon fellas! Pascal was designed as an introductory language for >a first programming course. Of course, it's restricted! A full system >language (like C) is not appropriate for Programming 101. A toy language >(like Pascal) is not appropriate for building operating systems. > John Chambers Ah John, perhaps you should have a short talk with the folks over at Apollo. They built an entire os, a transparent shared file system, network and graphics system using Pascal. It has dynamic runtime binding (unlike unix) and shared runtime libraries (unlike unix). The system is not shabby - it's real fast AND supports C. Not bad for a "toy language". (personally, I would have done the work in C, but it shows that that vehicle is not the only concideration, the destination is...) -- J Bradford Parker uucp: seismo!harvard!gcc-opus!brad otherwise: what else is there ? "Say something once, Why say it again ?" - David Burne