Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
However, in general Pascal has poor developer productivity when
compared to modern languages like python and C#. Ironically python is
perhaps the most popular language on Linux and most of its syntax is
derived from object pascal whereas pascal on linux is virtually
non-existant. Of course Python is piss poor in both performance and
memory usage but it does point the way to a revitalised pascal.
Adopting less verbose but still clean and clear syntax ala python is
IMHO the way to make Pascal great again.
I beg to differ.
Recently I rewrote a python program (on linux). The pascal version was
shorter and much clearer to understand. The python syntax is a horror
as far as I'm concerned.
Im not saying make pascal behave like python so if you were doing some
weird dynamic stuff with python thats fair enough. ALl im sayting is
theres no harm in replacing some of the verbose syntax with less verbose
ones provided they dont harm the clarity of the code.
I love delphi but find its verbosity a pain in some circumstances.
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