On Friday 16 October 2009 06:40:20 am Mark Emerson wrote: > On Friday 16 October 2009 06:04:17 am Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote: > > > Lee Jenkins <l...@datatrakpos.com> wrote: > > >> I don't agree with the idea that "BEGIN...END" determines the failure > > >> of Pascal, as syntax completion is for that. Both "BEGIN...END" and > > >> "{...}" are finished in the same time if they were done by computer. > > >> On the contrary, it is part of the way of Pascal being elegant. > > > > > > Its very amusing to me when I meet people who are also developers and > > > tell them I use object pascal and they look at me like I just told them > > > I was using punch cards. > > > > > > I just tell them... > > > > > > ObjectPascal: Strong like C, Easy like VB. > > > > > > -- > > > Warm Regards, > > > > > > Lee > > > > That blank look in the eyes of the C crowd is so strange. Lots and lots > > of people shy away from C/C++/etc since it is so obviously bad, but they > > don't know about Pascal so they go to slow scripting languages. They > > sure are happpier there than with C, but Pascal would be so much better > > in many cases. > > > > I usually don't say that I use Pascal, I say that I use FPC. Then they > > don't understandand what that is and think they missed something. And > > they sure have. > > > > FPC: Faster to compiler, faster to run, faster to write, faster to > > debug... We should print T-shirts with messages like that. > > > > > > /Ingemar > > But you guys all seem to be forgetting what I wrote near the beginning of > this thread, Pascal is merely a TEACHING language, which is why we have C. > :) > > Most people aren't interested in truth (e.g. that Pascal is a vastly > superior language in almost every respect). They are instead interested in > what is popular, politically correct, and has been artfully propagandized > into their gullible, small minds from a source they believe to be an > "authority" (e.g. REAL programmers don't use Pascal). > > All truth passes through three stages. > First, it is ridiculed, > second it is violently opposed, and > third, it is accepted as self-evident. > > Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) > > Getting small-minded people to wake up on almost any topic, from > programming languages to global politics, is the stuff of revolution. And > that is the BEGINing and the END. > > Mark Emerson
Correction... I should have said " (e.g. that *the FPC implemention of* Pascal is a vastly superior language in almost every respect)." Sorry. Mark Emerson _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal