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mercurhyo

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Oldies lovers there
« on: March 05, 2020, 11:09:58 pm »
for those who feel like dinosaurus squirels (nuts included lol), I share here something interesting

a full featured one pass modula-2 compiler working on amstrad cpc-6128/pcw systems

https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/applications_coding-hisoft-modula-2.htm

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=12902

you can run this modula-2 compiler with CPCE emulator or the famous WinApe emulator

you also can get turbo pascal 3.0 for this old 8bits machine at
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=dumps&num=4183
and
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=dumps&num=5924

these soft are english/french/spanish lang

just follow links above, click on the little diskette display, and explore the pages

I made that post just to show newbies how damn pascal (and its sons) is great for 3+ decades proving its concepts, stability and strength compared to "fashions" around interpreted pycraps, bytecoded java, and ugly diamond of death C++... ;) Smalltalk adopted one only inheritance like pascal objects

Hope you will enjoy the pascalish playback to the future emulators and... who knows? bring you ideas to code
« Last Edit: March 05, 2020, 11:12:59 pm by mercurhyo »
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2020, 11:14:29 pm »
yep ideas, because theses versions due to memory restrictions used to modify standards and brought big improvments at time
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2020, 11:17:05 pm »
(hisoft also had a Pascal iirc)

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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2020, 11:23:51 pm »

I made that post just to show newbies how damn pascal (and its sons) is great for 3+ decades proving its concepts, stability and strength compared to "fashions" around interpreted pycraps, bytecoded java, and ugly diamond of death C++... ;) Smalltalk adopted one only inheritance like pascal objects


Hi!

3 decades are not enough.

UCSD Pascal V II.1 was published in 1979 and later in the same year issued by Apple as Apple Pascal.

So take 4+ decades.

Winni

PS.: The Java bytecode is based on the UCSD p-code from UCSD Pascal.
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2020, 11:31:08 pm »
I just read again the 1st link i gave and WOW

set of 1024 elements on a 8bits machine in 1987 wowowowow

sets are 256 elements only on fpk in 2020 LOOOL

interestinnnng
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2020, 11:33:15 pm »
for I in mysetof65535elem do begin

would be cool indeed
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2020, 11:41:08 pm »
Hi!

Yes - I don't know what happend to the sets in Pascal in all those years.
Ts, ts, ts - 256. And SVS Pascal was even worse: only 128.

Old, old UCSD Pascal made no restriction - I think they had forgotten.
So you could build a set with the members [0, 1024, 32767].

But your program would hang at start, because you had only 64k RAM.

But a set with 1024 elements was possible then with no problems.

Winni

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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2020, 12:01:19 am »
@winni

I suppose the way to encode a 16bits register aside an AVLBTree to access 1024 elements with no duplicates was lost in space hahahahaha

so for now when you need a 'For iterator in bag_of_elements' use a TAVLTree
 >:D
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2020, 12:03:43 am »
 :P sets were droped out while ram went cheap and AVLBTrees raised  8-) I guess
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2020, 12:22:24 am »
Yes, what a shame!

I love sets - they shorten and ease the code.
Instead of sets you see scanning through arrays or complicates case constructions.

Sets were en vogue in the early 70s but it seems:  now nearly forgotten.

So the fashion waves come and go - even in Pascal.
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2020, 02:50:53 am »
+1 winni ;) SMH sets were/are/sould be another JEWEL of wirthian languages, especially for unordered fast loops
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2020, 04:31:17 am »
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2020, 07:19:26 am »
If you want to use AVR or similar, you have often a flashback to the 'old' good times  8-)

Less memory, you have to use assembler mnemonics sometimes, have to deal with interrupts, often no real multitasking,...  O:-)  :o  :D
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2020, 08:29:24 am »
@af0815
 Adelson-Velsky and Landis is a self-balancing binary search tree (AVL tree) it has nothing to do with AVR microcontrolers

it's a binary tree guarantying the same period of time to pick up an element, and some years ago, while debugging the 'sets' on some famous compilers I noticed at assembly language level they used kind of bitwise AVL tree to spare memory and to keep those sets as fast as light speed
 that is why with a 16 BITS register holdig values from 0 to 65535, the max leaves count was 1024
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Re: Oldies lovers there
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2020, 08:41:33 am »
I know the difference of AVL and AVR.

I mean the flashback with the limited resources and problems with trees, like the 8080 and Z80 times with CP/M and Turbo Pascal 3.0. 8 Bit and 16Bit registers only, 64k memory are enough for adressing.
We bought a extra package for TP3.0 in the company with a optimized balanced tree. I can only remember it was self balancing.

Normally you use self designed trees and must take care by yourself of the balancing eg. you load a sorted list.
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