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>>I still like Pascal.  Everybody says, "it was originally intended only to teach
>>people how to program".  And I say, "so what?"  C apparently wasn't "good
>>enough" in it's original incarnation either.  Otherwise, why did they have to
>>come up with ANSII C and C++?  And C does sacrifice readability in favor of
>>flexibility.  The C "for" statement is especially weird; it's completely
>>different from "for" statements I've seen in any other language.
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>pity about the pascal code generation ( pascal is EASIER to optimize than
>C, but no one (at least main-line compilers) seems to do it!!).compare
>output of your favorite pascal compiler with the same ( functionally ) code
>from MSC 6.0 (7.0??) or even watcom 9.0 ( with '486 code optimization ) and
>you will see what I mean..
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[Mac pascal nuked]
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>also.. I just love the ability to use the_variable<<=3; instead of ( I think )
>the_variable:=shl(the_variable,3);, which would not even be portable!!

the_variable:=(the_variable shl 3)

this is portable (at least to the amiga).  I have done it, I have proof,
I have programs that don't crash.  I have also seen Stony Brook's Pascal
(I own in it fact).  It is pretty good (optimization blows me away), but
I still like Turbo Pascal 6.0 better.  As I already optimize my code,
I don't need any compiler to do so.  (So I don't get flamed): This does
not mean that everyone can optimize their code.  Yes it is nice to
have a copmiler to do so.  Yes C does nicely.  However, if you guys
are going to go with optimization and libraries...how about Fortran (Puketran
to us)?  That is optimized, portable, and has millions of libraries.
(Ok, maybe not millions...but a lot).  Turbo Pascal is still the best 
language (I consider it to be a different language to normal Pascal) I
have ever used.  The only problem with it is the compiler limitations.
(i.e. that arrays have to be constant).  As far as I can tell, this
is the only thing that separates C from Pascal.  On a final note,
Pascal does have easier string handling and an ability to handle boolean
functions.

This is one nice thing about TP:

function BoolTest(x,y:byte): boolean;
begin
 ...
end;

begin
 if BoolTest(10,40) then InsertAnotherSpiffyProcedureNameHereIfYouWant;
end.
 

--Enh, so I forgot my sig...sue me.