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In article <4kqea9$1tm@innocence.interface-business.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
>Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
>Date: 14 Apr 1996 08:51:21 GMT

>roy@mersinet.co.uk writes:

>> > I don't like Pascal, it's to easy, the compiler always knows the
>> > errors, you can't make a buggy program because you can't do a good
>> > program.

>> I have written countless very useful system programs for Netware using
>> Borlands Turbo Pascal which, with its inline assembler, provides an
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>> environment in which solid reliable code can be built extremely rapidly.
>> The speed at which you can put a project together is often a key
>> factor in the "Real World".

>But that's not plain Pascal.

>Let's face it, tools like Turbo Pascal are really up to the task to
>do ``real-worl programs''.

Actually the complaint I keep hearing about my use of TP is that it is to hard 
to write a program that compiles without errors.  When I point out that those 
same problems are errors in C, they just don't get caught by the compiler and 
are now bugs in the programs; I just keep eharing something like well at least 
the project is out the door.  No wonder our industry has such a bad rep.

>Plain old Wirth Pascal is an (excellent) educational language however.

>-- 
>cheers, J"org

>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)