Feelin' My Age (part 3): UCSD P-System Pascal
From the mid 1980s to early 90s I was proud to be a mature undergraduate student of the UK's remarkable Open University †, majoring in pure Maths. I took a subsidiary computer science module as part of of the degree. Pascal was one of the languages that was taught ( Prolog being another). At the time they taught Pascal using the P-system and UCSD Pascal . UCSD Pascal in use - source Wikipedia, Public Domain UCSD Pascal Handbook - source http://www.kdbarto.org/UCSD_Pascal.html So why does that make me feel my age? Well the Wikipedia Pascal Programming page discusses UCSD Pascal under the " Early Pascal Compilers " section! And the last release was in the mid eighties. Now I did pass that course (with distinction I might add!) and I'd love to show you some of the code I wrote, but sadly it's on 5.25" floppies ! Strangely enough, I don't have a suitable drive handy. Which brings me on to another reason this makes me feel all dinosaur-like. To...