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This is my point, I hear it all the time... from people who don't know
much about it. When I ask them why, they give me a few examples, which
are almost always false.
These days, you hear about "Delphi" and "Kylix" a lot, and borland
doesn't advertize that strongly that they are in fact just object pascal
bundled with a GUI builder, debugger, and a bunch of libraries and
objects.
I am more or less curious to see if anyone has any legitimate gripes
about it, or if they are just repeating "pascal sucks" because they
heard it somewhere else.
A lot of things I hear just don't make sense. I heard before "You can't
make low level programs with pascal", while I had made a wacom pad
driver that did low level (i.e. not File based) serial I/O and patched
OS interrupt vectors to move the mouse, etc.
I heard before "C is more portable", while I can compile a big GUI
program in windows or Linux without changing anything, and I have some
text mode pascal apps that compile on OS/2, pc-dos, atari TOS, Linux,
windows, etc. I've heard "pascal is non-standard" from people go around
using all sorts of non-standard non-ANSI C stuff in GCC. And I have
heard "pascal is slow" without having any proof provided. What i do
know is programs written in C tend have a much higher incidence of
things like buffer overflow problems and access violations.
Come on, I want to hear the real problems ;)
-- noah silva
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 22:41, Paul wrote:
> I remember hearing people referring to Pascal as a concept learning or
> teaching language. I don't hear much about it these days.
>
> Basic suggests basic, and it's a Micro$oft language.
>
> >Since I heard the groans around the room, I have to ask: Why?
> >
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