retard wrote:
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:19:25 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
When I then picked up K+R C, I never wrote another line of Pascal. It so
soured me on Pascal that I never got on the later bandwagons of Modula
II, Delphi, TurboPascal, etc. Never even looked at them.
The programming-language-as-religion problem exists only in your
imagination. I fail to see Pascal as a religion. I don't know what the
pure Pascal compiler you're talking about is, but ordinary Pascal is just
another procedural systems programming language like C. It has a bit
different syntax ("begin end" vs "{}" and so on), somewhat different
rules for some default data types, but it's more or less C wrapped in a
syntactic mask.
Pick up a copy of "Pascal User Manual and Report." That's pure Pascal.
It's also quite useless. Your program has to be all in one file, for
instance. For another, writing I/O always appends a newline. Try writing
binary files with that. There was no way to get at the bit
representation of a type. Etc.
