[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Quick Modern Object Pascal Introduction, for Programmers

[Luca Olivetti]

El 20/06/16 a les 11:44, Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit:


> A private online service I use has somebody who still bears the scars of
> Olivetti attempting to write an operating system in (strict, unexpanded)
> Pascal.

Oh, the memories (and, no, I'm not related). My first job was in one of 
Olivetti's factories where they used such a system for production 
control (they ate their own dog food).
I was programming the PLC (well, part of it) and it had to keep in 
memory two hours worth of planning since that was the time the computer 
needed to reboot when it crashed ;-)

I doubt it was plain pascal though: according to this page

http://www.storiaolivetti.it/percorso.asp?idPercorso=564

it was concurrent pascal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Pascal

(even if I'm not sure the wikipedia page refers to the same thing).

Bye
-- 
Luca