On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:56:01 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> On a sunny day (Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:38:01 +0000 (UTC)) it happened
> Martin Gregorie  wrote in
>>Knew of it: never read it. The "68 Microjournal" was my source of most
>>knowledge back in the day when I was running FLEX09 on a 6809-based
>>system.
>
> That 680X I never got into it,
> I still have a 68000 chip somewhere..
>
They were covered too, when they appeared, as well as the 88000 RISC
chips.

>>  "The Practice of Programming" Kernighan & Pike
>>
Once you'd learnt to program from K&R, this provided help on writing
readable, maintainable programs and coding styles that made debugging
easier too (top-down programming rather than bottom-up, and testing as
you write rather than saving all testing to the end.

> Also for a university course I did learn Pascal, all they did was in
> Pascal...
> It seems Pascal somehow evaporated.
>
... its still alive and well as Object Pascal, usually in conjunction
with the Delphi IDE. I've never used it - just know its still around.

... and several books use it to present algorithms (the eponymous
"Software Tools In Pascal" and Sedgwick's "Algorithms". Its a good way to
describe algorithms: you can transcribe direct from the page into C on a
terminal and the result tends to run as soon as you've corrected any
typos. Been there, done that a few times.


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