Atari Pascal was a program released by Atari in 1982. It was the first version of Pascal available for the Atari 8-bit computers. For the concept Atari (当ãŸã‚Š) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pascal is an imperative computer programming language, developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a language particularly suitable for structured programming. ... Atari built a series of 8-bit home computers based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU, starting in 1979. ...
Because it was released through Atari Program Exchange, Atari Pascal was unsupported by Atari. It also required two disk drives.
Remember, Pascal is a "school" language, and access to the machine level was definitely not a desirable feature in such an environment.
In fact, most of the Pascal compilers in use today have invented some way to circumvent the restrictions of "standard" Pascal, and it is largely because of such "inventions" that the various versions of the language are incompatible.
Most importantly, the "absolute" type allows us to inform the Pascal compiler that we have a constant which really is (honest, really, please let it be) the address of one of those record formats we wanted to point to.
Pascal was developed by Professor Niklaus Wirth of Switzerland in the late '60s.
UCSD Pascal programmers may at first lament the loss of the predefined data type string, since the only way to simulate string variables in Kyan Pascal is by setting up an array of characters.
In general, Kyan Pascal is territic as long as you don't particularly care about writing programs that make use of features that are unique to the Atari.
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