On 03/02/15 13:47, John Rumm wrote:
On 03/02/2015 12:59, ChrisK wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 02/02/2015 15:49, wrote:

Lots of familiar languages but not seen Coral66 mentioned; anyone
here ever use it?

Yup, loads of times alas!

(its kind of like Pascal with all the nice bits taken out)

IIRC it was really Algol 60 with all the nice bits taken out and some

Also a fair comment - again a block structured readable language. I
normally use Pascal as a starting point since modern programmers might
have a feel for what that looks like ;-) But it is indeed a derivative
of ALGOL

really nasty additions like bit field structures that never seemed to
work and clunky I/O support (PDP11 anyway) that were the first things to
be thrown away.

There seemed to be an unspoken pressure to use it because it was local
though C was around at the time and much better suited to constrained
environments.

Often because MoD specified it as one of the acceptable languages.


IIRC it had been in some way 'validated for military use' and C had not...

There was IIRC some pressure to make compiler not be too smart in case
the code they turned out wasn't what was expected..this was relevant for
real time programming.

Does what it says on the tin is good practice for things that go bang,
as against does lots more stuff and occasionally has a mind of its own...





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