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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: naughty Pascal
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:04:10 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <20260106083038.00000777@gmail.com>,
John Ames  <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 13:19:54 +0100
>"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Turbo Pascal had [...]
>
>Sure did! But TP didn't roll out 'til 1983, thirteen years into the
>language's existence.
>
>> I don't think anyone used the original flavor of the language.
>
>The ISO standard wasn't finalized 'til 1983, the same year as TP; even
>UCSD Pascal didn't come around 'til 1977. But it was being used for
>teaching well before that, and Kernighan's essay was published in '81,
>so people were most definitely using (or trying to use) earlier forms
>of the language for stuff.

Kernighan was using the UCB Pascal system that was part of the
(early) BSD distributions.  That dialect predated Turbo Pascal
by several years (1BSD shipped it in 1977).

	- Dan C.