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		zerr on Nov 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s $13k operating system (2013) First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code.

pjmlp on Nov 6, 2021 [–]

And P-Code was never meant for an interpreter, Niklaus Wirth originally created it to ease the bootstrapping of Pascal into other systems, it was UCSD that made it popular beyond the original goal.

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