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Article #3504Re: Turbo Pascal vs. C
From: John Hardin
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 22:03
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 22:03
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dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) writes: > It's true that C has become something of an industry standard, much as COBOL > once did. As far as I can see, that means that anybody who knows C can find > a job, even if they don't use it very well, but only the best can get paid > to use Turbo Pascal. (I believe it's incredibly easy to write bad C code; > I see it regularly. Bad Turbo Pascal code seems considerably rarer.) Oh, come on now! Pascal vs C discussions always degenerate into name calling pretty fast, kind of like discussions about the best editor (Brief :-) ), but this discussion is going down hill more repidly than most. John "C programmers have better oral hygiene" Hardin ---------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!msi-s0.msi.umn.edu!srcsip!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!samsung!usc!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpindda!hardin From: hardin@hpindda.cup.hp.com (John Hardin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal vs. C Message-ID: <51440005@hpindda.cup.hp.com> Date: 26 Sep 90 22:03:25 GMT References: <F*=-d162@cs.psu.edu> Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA Lines: 15