[PLUG] Pascal?

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Hi,

>From the response I saw at the meeting, I assume the two or three people
that asked me about Kylix were the only people who were interested.

Since I heard the groans around the room, I have to ask: Why?
It has been my experience that many techie types (or hardcore C or ASM)
are prejudiced against pascal just as much as Basic, but usually with no
basis, or a very outdated basis.  There seems to be a lot of
misconceptions floating around pascal (it's slow, it's not powerful,
it's interpreted...), and I have to wonder why?

Also I should point out that there is no other tool which even comes
close to being able to build and debug GUI applications on linux as
conveniently as Kylix.

I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I am interested on opinions
about this.  I have programmed in Pascal and C (and modula and rpn, 68k
asm, etc.) for many years, including designing some compilers in
college, and so far, pascal is still my favorite ;)

 thanks,
     noah silva


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