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Was anyone building things like operating systems or drivers in pascal? AFAIK that was always the realm of c. Turbo pascal was the first language I was taught, I have a soft spot for it but I think it had largely faded away by then.



http://wiki.osdev.org/Pascal#Past_uses_in_OS_development

I have vague memories of trying to write MacOS apps in CodeWarrior and needing to mark C functions as having a Pascal ABI...


Apollo built a whole Unix-like in Pascal that ran on their workstations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS


Yeah, when I was working at Burroughs in 1980, they were doing printer drivers and a distributed OS prototype in their version of Pascal. Problem was, everyone needed to beef up Pascal in their own way to make it industrial level.


I wrote some pretty low-level stuff in VAX PASCAL, which had extensions to let you do just about anything. It was a nice language.




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