From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-02-06, Jud McCranie  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:10:06 -0500, "Bill Leary"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Good observation.  Weren't the original Pascals done on punch card systems?   
   >   
   > I think the first Pascal implementation was on a CDC 6000 series   
   > mainframe, which used punched cards and terminals.  The FORTRAN for   
   > those machines had a program statement where you gave the name of the   
   > program, and listed the files assigned to input and output (or just   
   > INPUT and OUTPUT if they were the standard input and output.)  The   
   > Pascal PROGRAM statement is almost identical to that, although the   
   > parameters are no longer used.   
      
   Program's parameters are not used in TP, but are in ISO.   
   One can even define internal files with it. IMHO not the most significant   
   feature, but still, a feature :-)   
      
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