Talk:UCSD Pascal

message: This article, and the article UCSD p-system Overlap each other more than just mildly. --Samiam95124 01:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct wikilink is UCSD p-System.  Msnicki (talk) 01:59, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

message: The introduction says: 
  Notable extensions to standard Pascal include separately compilable
  Units and a String type. Both of these extensions influenced the design 
  of the Ada programming language.
The history section says:
  UCSD introduced two features that were important improvements on the 
  original Pascal: variable length strings, and "units" of independently 
  compiled code (an idea taken from the then-evolving Ada programming language).
So which one comes first after all? Svofski (talk) 16:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ada <-> pascal 

message: The main article has been made the object of redirection for people seeking information on P-Code.   P-Code is also known as "pseudo-code" and does not necessarily mean Pascal Code.   People have been writing pseudo-code, ever since they figured out ways of representing (and interpreting) bytes and words with things that don't actually mean anything in any given programming language.
Somebody should fix the redirect so that people trying to look up "Pseudo-Code" (a way of implementing theoretical or "virtual" microprocessors) won't be redirected to this page.   216.99.219.27 (talk) 02:05, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrectly Redirected here 

message: :UCSD Pascal was a Pascal programming language system
What constitutes this system? Just the OS and the programming language, or additionally a complete toolchain? --Abdull (talk) 10:57, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Most pre-PC toolchains were either a REPL (like APL or Lisp) or multi-pass with separate programs like UNIX. Even on PCs early professional toolchains were multi-pass (eg, C80/L80 for Microsoft's C compiler on CP/M). -- Resuna (talk) 14:13, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "System" 

message: When I bought an Apple ][ in 1980, I also bought the UCSD p-system. (I used its text editor until I bought a PC in the late 80s.) It came with Pascal, and you could purchase a version of FORTRAN, which Apple touted. I wrote an FFT in FORTRAN, but it was slow. I don't know how many p-systems Apple sold, but I'm reasonably certain it was a substantial number. The article should mention this. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 23:51, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: When I was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982-84, we had a Corvus Constellation with several dozen Apple ][ on which we undergrads learned UCSD Pascal as our first programming language. Over a dozen newer languages later, I'm still grateful for the way UCSD naturally steered me into writing clean code from first attempt.  Keep it simple, keep it easily legible to the next human who has to modify it, and the after-the-fact unit testers will rarely have anything to complain about.  My thanks to the creators of the system, and to whomever purchased it for UNC-CH. 204.116.50.98 (talk) 16:11, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Apple ][

message: Does anyone have the release date for each version? 108.202.33.17 (talk) 18:48, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a collection of release notes for software. --Wtshymanski (talk) 23:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Versions