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On Wednesday 03 July 2002 10:36 pm, Noah Silva wrote:
> 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 basis, or a very outdated basis.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?
I use Free Pascal sometimes. It's leagues above the old TP/BP for dos.
I'd say its no worse then a Perl/Python war. Anyone who has used
Delphi/Kylix/Free Pascal knows Pascal has progressed well. I'd say its
easier then C++, but with as many features.
That being said, it does suck having to install an extra lib just to run
Pascal apps :) (Not sure about 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 ;)
Yeah. Speed of development is not matched with Pascal. It's just too easy.
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