Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <ShnRa.14919$kI5.9342@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
Michael Pender <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
>John B. Matthews <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>nospam-967967.21253716072003@clmboh1-nws3.columbus.rr.com">news:nospam-967967.21253716072003@clmboh1-nws3.columbus.rr.com...
>>
>> Logo was a delightful environment, but not the only "serious" recursive
>> stack machine in wide use on Apple II.
>>
>> Apple's UCSD Pascal implemented a very efficient stack machine. Each
>> stack frame had a static and dynamic link to allow recursion from an
>> arbitrary nesting level.
>
>Apple Pascal was a half-baked implementation of the language that offered
>very limited system access.  It was a compiled Fortran program that
>inherited all of the limitations of the Fortran language, as well as those
>of Pascal.

Such as the lack of recursion.

Oh, wait, no, that's not the case.

(Compiled Fortran?  Where are you getting this stuff?)
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