TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

Posted Jan 19, 2006 13:39 UTC (Thu) by whitemice (guest, #3748)
In reply to: TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge) by tjc
Parent article: TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

>Once they realize that programming in Pascal is like
>breathing out of one side of your nose

Why? I've written apps in Pascal, and used lots of apps written in Pascal. It is (or was) a good language for developing applications; especially the OO varieties. Low level enough to not get in the way but high level enough to save the developer from grunt work like garbage collection.

Personally I do almost all my new development in C#, which was developed by a Pascal guy - and boy does it show. A nice language where you can get on with getting things done but without throwing away all the power (like you do in most varieties of basic).

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TurboCASH debates moving to Linux (NewsForge)

Posted Jan 19, 2006 18:33 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Why?

I found the language to be very rigid, to the point of frustration. But I haven't used Pascal since very early versions of Turbo Pascal, so I'm sure that it has improved since then.

I still have fond memories of Borland's "Turbo Vision" text-mode IDE. MS/DOS (prior to version 5) had a very primitive command shell, so working in an IDE was nice.