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bruce@inmos.co.uk (Bruce Stenning) writes:
>Can you imagine writing something like UNIX in Pascal?  It would be an
>absolute nightmare.

I don't have to imagine it - I've seen it.  In fact I wrote some of it.
Domain/OS (the operating system for Apollo workstations) is written in Pascal.
It's no more or less of a nightmare than real UN*X(tm).

Now can we please all stop the "my language is better than your language"
wars?  Without knowing all the constraints, it is impossible to make any
meaningful comparisons.  for example:

If portability is the major concern, then obvously you should choose C.
If the code is only going to run on your computer, use whatever you like.
TP has a (much) faster compile-load-run cyle, so using that instead of
a C compiler can be a big win, especially on a slower machine like a 286.

As for the two languages:  any half-way competent programmer can work
equally well in either language.  Obviously each language has its own
set of features you will miss when programming in the other: in my case
I like Pascal variant records, and C conditional expressions.



-- 
John Francis                                johnf@apollo.hp.com
The world can be divided into two classes :-
 those who divide people into two classes, and those who don't.