ANTIC Interview 279 - Tom Eckmann, Kyan Software - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

 

Tom Eckmann was president and co-founder of Kyan Software. Kyan's flagship product was Kyan Pascal, an implementation of the Pascal programming language which was available for the Apple II, Atari 8-bits, and Commodore 64/128 computers.

 

This interview took place on May 19, 2017.

 

Teaser quote: "We sneered at Turbo Pascal because it was non-compliant, there were all of these un-pure features. ... He [Philippe Kahn] just looks looks at me and goes, 'Nobody gives a damn.'"