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Action was the best 8-bit programming language

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90 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 19:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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wduquette ◴[04 Sep 25 21:15 UTC] No.45132286[source]▶
The OP says that 8-bit CPUs couldn't handle Pascal well, and that Action! (release in 1983) was the first IDE for 8-bit machines.

But Apple Pascal was released for the Apple II in 1979. Based on UCSD Pascal, the Apple Pascal system was basically an OS that simply was an IDE; and it worked perfectly well on 8-bit hardware. I had quite a lot of fun with it back in the day.

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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[04 Sep 25 22:42 UTC] No.45133065[source]▶
If I'm not mistaken Apple Pascal ran a virtual machine which executed "p-Code" and the compiler emitted that.

Because, yeah, the 6502 is a difficult target for high level languages.