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TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

Posted Jan 18, 2006 22:30 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge) by tjc
Parent article: TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

Low-level programming in Pascal is really hurtful, no doubt about it. Death by ord(). And those retarded syntax charts that everybody seemed to love drove me nuts.

However, Pascal makes writing a big application out of interconnected modules a joy. Compilation units beat the snot out of C header files in almost every way (readability, maintainability, expressivity...) Unless you're parsing or bit-banging, Pascal really wasn't a bad choice at all. It's better than C in a number of ways.

Of course, choosing it for a new project today would be folly.

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TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

Posted Jan 18, 2006 23:39 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

And those retarded syntax charts that everybody seemed to love drove me nuts.

Hey, I remember those! :-)

I guess that's why I abandoned Pascal for C early on. I could never remember more than about a third of Pascal's syntax, whereas C was easy to remember, mostly because there's a lot less of it.

TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

Posted Jan 19, 2006 4:30 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link]

You have never touched a REAL Pascal compiler, haven't you. Ord is
obsolete since Turbo Pascal 4.0, which was release "some" years ago.