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Re: What exactly WAS Apple Pascal?
- Subject: Re: What exactly WAS Apple Pascal?
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 19 Jul 2004 21:27:22 GMT
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Paul Schlyter replied:
>> A little later, Philippe Kahn saw other ways to achieve the required
>> compactness to fit a Pascal IDE into 64K, and he did it using
>> Z-80 machine code in Turbo Pascal.
>
>No, Philippe Kahn didn't do that. The one who did it was Anders
>Hejlsberg from Denmark. Originally his compiler+IDE was sold in
>Denmark under the name "Compas Pascal" (later "Poly Pascal")
<snip>
Thanks, Paul, for setting me straight on that.
I think I recall hearing about Anders before, but blanked on it
because of Philippe's bigger profile. ;-)
Turbo Pascal was certainly a _tour de force_ in tight programming
and programmer-oriented interface design--he deserves accolades!
-michael
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