Pastel (programming language)
Pastel is an extended version of the Pascal programming language, created in c. 1982 for Amber, an operating system for the S-1 supercomputer project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.[1]
Pastel was conceived by Jeffrey M. Broughton, then Project Engineer in charge of compilers and operating system software for the S-1 project,[2] because of dissatisfaction with the PL/1 language in which Amber was being implemented. The language was named Pastel ("an off-color Pascal") and was the inspiration for Richard Stallman's GNU C compiler.[3] Compared with Pascal compilers of that period, Pastel's features included:[4]
- Improved type definition
- Parametric types
- Explicit packing and allocation control
- Additional parameter passing modes
- Additional control constructs
- Set iteration
- Loop-exit form
- Return statement
- Module definition
- Exception handling
- General enhancements
- Conditional boolean operations
- Constant expressions
- Variable initialization
References
- ^ Mark Smotherman. "S-1 Supercomputer (1975-1988)". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01.
- ^ Mark Smotherman (last updated June 28, 2005). "S-1 Supercomputer Alumni". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Frankston, Charles (1984). "6 Implementation". The Amber Operating System (Thesis). MIT. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- ^ Jeff Broughton. http://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_llnls1S1Op_10037358/S1_OpenHouse_Apr85_djvu.txt. Retrieved 2014-02-1.
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