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0 pointsthePunisher5y ago0 comments

Pascal was originally an application programming language, not a systems programming language.

These days you can probably mix assembly within your Pascal code or access pointers directly with some custom language extensions, but these weren't part of the original Pascal specification.

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monocasa5y ago

You've absolutely always been able to interop with asm as well as access and set arbitrary pointers with Pascal.

I'm not sure where you got this idea that Pascal is memory safe.

thePunisherOP5y ago

Like I said, those were extensions made by compiler vendors, and not part of the original language.

Borland enabled adding Assembler to almost every language for which they made a compiler.

monocasa5y ago

You know that UCSD Pascal or ISO Pascal isn't the original Pascal, right?

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0 pointsthePunisher5y ago0 comments

Pascal was originally an application programming language, not a systems programming language.

These days you can probably mix assembly within your Pascal code or access pointers directly with some custom language extensions, but these weren't part of the original Pascal specification.

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monocasa5y ago

You've absolutely always been able to interop with asm as well as access and set arbitrary pointers with Pascal.

I'm not sure where you got this idea that Pascal is memory safe.

thePunisherOP5y ago

Like I said, those were extensions made by compiler vendors, and not part of the original language.

Borland enabled adding Assembler to almost every language for which they made a compiler.

monocasa5y ago

You know that UCSD Pascal or ISO Pascal isn't the original Pascal, right?

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