On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
If we had the processing power (and all the incredibly cheap HW that exists today), in the 80's, I wouldn't have had to write such efficient assembly language code... Much easier today, with cheap RAM, etc. C++ for an old timer, takes awhile to get an understanding of, because of the OO, but as a book I have says, before OO, approximately 50% of the projects ended in failure. I believe that is on the low side. Never used Pascal (wasn't that a teaching language?, but I did use PL/M-86.
OO is fine. Today, at least, there are much better implementations of in java, python, etc. C++ is just tortuous.
The pascal p-code implementation was, IIRC, implemented by UCSD. Pascal was then popularized by Borland.
Ahh for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades involved fork lifts.
Dave