[kwlug-disc] BYTE Magazine archives

[Mikalai Birukou]

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>>> I was more of a "PC Magazine" kind of guy, but for those of you who
>>> read BYTE, I believe (I haven't fully tested it) that I've found the
>>> whole catalogue in .pdf format:
>>>
>>> https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm
>> Quote from an issue in the month I was born:
>>
> With continuation it is even more fun :) :
>
>> ```
>>
>> PASCAL COSTS ADD UP
>>
>> I would liketo respond to BYTEs comment on"Pascal Critique and a
>> Comment,"by J O'Loughlin(December 1978 BYTE, page179).I feel that the
>> UCSD Pascal system is not an affordable implementation of Pascal. Although the
>> software costs "only" $200, you need 56K bytes of programmable memory to
>> use it productively ($800), plus 8inch floppy disk ($1000), and a terminal with
>> cursor control ($1000). Add this to a $1000 mainframe and this "affordable"
>> system costs $4000. Compare this toa $600 TRS-80! Sure, Pascal is more readable than BASIC, but there are other
> considerations already discussed in the forum published with your comment. Remember, all programming languages are
> equivalent (eg:toaTuringmachine), so there are no programs that will run in Pascal that won't run in BASIC.
>      I don't mean to defend BASIC. It's slow and archaic. But it(and FORTRAN) have lasted much longer than any of the block structured languages: ALGOL, PL/1, SIMULA, etc. (By "last", I mean that it is still in popular use.) How long will Pascal last? The ideas behind block structured languages are great, but they have yet to be implemented in an optimal form.
>
> ```
>
> Few years later, in the university Pascal will be used. Tricky questions
> of the day would be function pointers, and passing them as callbacks.