Ask HN: Is it just an accident that Pascal can be compiled extremely fast?

Re:Ask HN: Is it just an accident that Pascal can be compile... by Someone on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:43PM (#34495505)

I don’t think that’s completely true. Pascal was also designed as a general purpose language to compete with Algol and Fortran.

See for example Wirth’s https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....:

“Compared to Algol 60, its range of applicability is considerably increased due to a variety of data structuring facilities. In view of its intended usage both as a convenient basis to teach programming and as an efficient tool to write large programs…”

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just an accident that Pascal can be compile... by AnimalMuppet on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:28PM (#34496014)

My first reaction was that Pascal's extremely spartan I/O capabilities made that a pipe dream. But then I remembered what Fortran's I/O was like...

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just an accident that Pascal can be compile... by Someone on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:38PM (#34496736)

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