Multilevel standards

[Brad Parker]

In article <11 at mit-athena.ARPA> jc at 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...)

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J Bradford Parker
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