Re: Historical Pascal ETH Tech Re****ts now downloadable
by "Chris Burrows" <cfbsoftware@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 19, 2007 at 10:13 PM
"Marco van de Voort" <marcov@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:slrnf9ug92.2tav.marcov@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On 2007-07-19, Chris Burrows <cfbsoftware@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> ETH Zurich have now made most of their Technical Re****ts available for
>> download as PDF files. Ones of interest to Pascal historians are:
>
> ()
>
> The modula-2 ones might also be interesting, to see where the unit
> (TP)/module(EP) system came from?
Yes - the Modula-2 (and Oberon) re****ts are also interesting. However,
AFAIR, the similarities between the unit sytem in TP and the unit system
in
UCSD Pascal leads me to believe that its unit system was inspired more by
UCSD than by Modula-2.
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2