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In article <35907028.BC9D8A@nr.infi.net>, Kenneth C Stahl
<kstahl@nr.infi.net> writes
>I know how to program in Pascal, but I would never use it if any other option
>were available. The main reason I would reject it is that the original
>designer of the language never intended for it to be used as a real
>programming language. Nicholas Wirth only intended it to be used as a teaching
>tool. Some years after he designed Pascal he designed Modula/2 which was
>really what he had intended all along. Some other minds came along and made
>some improvements called Modula/3. It has all of the nice features of Pascal
>and is also a correct implementation.
>
I suspect that you have never seen Wirth's pascal lined up beside delphi
or even TP 7 ! ;)  

There is no comparison, the semantics and syntax are basicly the same
but the power and strengths are miles apart

The original pascal did not even have a string type.

The original pascal was very much a teaching tool, it was accidently the
embryo for one of the most highly disciplined and well structured
languages. 

I started programing in Assembler, then BBC BASIC ( a super language in
its own right) I have since had varying exposure to Modular 2, Fortran,
LISP, C, C++, COBOL, VB, GPSSH,  Simula, etc..... and Pascal and Delphi

A fairly reputable fellow I knew who made money from designing and
implementing big systems, said that for speed and ease of development he
would use C or C++ ( as appropriate) but if a project was to be
maintained and upgraded by more than just the designer, he would ALLWAYS
use pascal.

BTW he had never used a GOTO ;)




>And who said you have to learn everything about C right from the very start.
>I've been using it since 1983 and I'm still learning how to do some of the
>more esoteric tricks that can be done.

I agree with these sentiments entirely

> It is a simple enough language that
>someone who has never written a line of code can write a complete program
>within minutes, yet it is so rich with features that it can be used for any
>programming problem.
Not sure about this one!  ;)

>

Cheers, Jim


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