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More early Pascal history (way before Delphi; before Turbo Pascal and Quick Pascal)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07

The people knowing about the really early Pascal history are a dying breed. So before I pass away (see the posts on my rectum cancer), let me post a few more links here that based on yesterday’s Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal which I ended with:

I learned a few more things from [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? (Page 2)

Here we go:

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Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/06

Last week I wrote on File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn, promising to write more on p-Code and UCSD Pascal. That’s now (:

I started with [Wayback/Archive] “java byte code” “ucsd” “p-code” – Google Search as I was looking for really old material on this (Java 1.0 versions became available in the 1994-1995 time frame, and a lot of material back then either did not make it to the World Wide Web (which slowly gained popularity around that time, see History of the World Wide Web) or has vanished due to link rot.

The cool thing is that many “new” people are not even aware of p-Code, as the 2019 thread [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? shows.

I learned a thing or two from it as well, for instance that there has been a “recent” book on UCSD Pascal:

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BitSavers.org just added 7 missing scans of PascalNews newsletters (1975…1983)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/30

For anyone keeping up with Pascal history, these uploads are new:

–jeroen

via: Index of /pdf/pascalNews.

Posted in Apple Pascal, BitSavers.org, DEC Pascal, Delphi, Development, History, IBM Pascal, Pascal, Software Development, Standard Pascal, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal | Leave a Comment »

Happy 80th birthday Niklaus Wirth!

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/15

Today, Niklaus Wirth, “father” of The Pascal Programming Language turned 80.

Happy birthday!

–jeroen

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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:

An earlier (November 1972) draft of the report is also available.

–jeroen

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