This summer, 40 years ago “The Pascal Programming Language (Revised Edition)” was published
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/01
Niklaus Wirth developed the Pascal Programming Language in the early 1970s.
This summer, 40 years ago, he published an important report in that era: “The Programming Language Pascal (Revised Report) July 1973“.
The report describes the language after it had been use in a while and includes a few language changes (packed records and arrays, file handling behaviour, and a few others) introducing a period of language stability.
If you are part of the Swiss research community, you can download the original PDF at
http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:3059/eth-3059-01.pdf?pid=eth:3059&dsID=eth-3059-01.pdf
If you are not, then Switch.ch will block access.
However, there are at least 2 ways to view the report:
- a copy of the PDF can be found at The Programming Language Pascal (Revised Report) July 1973
- Google caches a Quick View of the PDF.
An earlier (November 1972) draft of the report is also available.
–jeroen
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