1970s Computer Bookshelf: Pascal, Microprocessors, CP/M
Posted by nmrk@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Posted by nmrk@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Feisty-Jeweler-3331@reddit
Yeah Linux is definitely from the 1970s... /s
gf99b@reddit
Should have used the cover of a Unix book from Bell Labs, or the cover of the iconic K&R "The C Programing Language" book.
nmrk@reddit (OP)
Oh I have those too, in some other box. The original Software Tools book was a classic, then was translated from Ratfor into languages like Pascal.
nmrk@reddit (OP)
That book resurfaced in the same dusty old box, I had nowhere else to put a relic like that. I had to check the dates for MkLinux: circa 1995. It was the earliest public beta of a modern unix based MacOS X environment.
Primo0077@reddit
The Macintosh Performa was such a great computer back in the 70s.
2a_lib@reddit
It really was. In the 90s, not so much.
SpeedDaemon1969@reddit
Ah yes, the '70s, when grunge ruled the airwaves, and RISC & microkernels were the darling of the computer science academics.
cazzipropri@reddit
Pascal was such a nice language.
nmrk@reddit (OP)
You will notice the emergence of early Structured Programming in those Pascal books, even early attempts at Object Oriented Programming. I have more good Pascal stuff, it should have been in that same box but it wasn't. Must have gotten separated.
CookiesTheKitty@reddit
It still is. From the first time I experienced it in the early 80s, Pascal never lost its charm and elegance to me. I loathe that clumsy ugly mess of #defines and write-only nonsense with casts and pointers that C seems to require. Pascal has always delivered the goods in a neatly efficient and maintainable whole. It makes sense. I was never a very competent programmer but, while it's hard for me to write a good C program, in Pascal it's harder for me to write a bad one. I just need to follow some rules.